Exhibitions
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Sails, Sugar, Silicon
Sails, Sugar & Silicon is an exhibition in which two Dutch and Taiwanese artists reflect, through performative experiences that play with technology and the senses, on the 400 year history of material exchanges between The Netherlands and Taiwan. The exhibition presents works by Dutch artist Marije Baalman and Taiwanese born, naturalized Dutch Wen Chin Fu. Both artists approach the intertwined history of their native countries by making audiovisual creations using invented instruments. Marije Baalman makes music out of the wind playing with kites, electronic sensors and software. She grew up on the coastal province of Friesland where the strong winds make an ideal environment for flying kites. These same winds in the 17th century filled the sails of Dutch ships making their way towards Taiwan. In Frisian the word for kite ‘draakje fleane’ is closely related to the English word drake or dragon. During her stay in Taiwan Marije Baalman will be learning about Taiwanese kiting traditions. Taiwan today is also the world’s larger exporter of silicon chips, the basic building blocks of the mobile digital instruments that Marije Baalman engineers to sonify the wind. Before exporting silicon, during the Dutch colonial period Taiwan was an exporter of sugar, with the Dutch establishing sugar plantations on the island to expand the production of what was then a new colonial good. Soulangh Cultural Park, which hosts the exhibition, was itself in origin a sugar refinery. Wen Chin Fu works with sugar as primary material. She was inspired by a candy whistle from her childhood, a sweet that made sound until it melted in the mouth. Wen Chin Fu uses candy making techniques to create simple percussion instruments, which she calls Tang, the Chinese word for sugar, which also conveys onomatopoeically the sound of the instrument. Tang is an instrument that can be played musically, but who’s chemical cristallisation process becomes a source of fascination for the experimental film made in collaboration with artist Tseng, Li-Chun, also featured in the exhibition. Sails, Sugar & Silicon is the first exhibition starting the 2022-2024 exchange program between iii in The Hague and Soulangh Cultural Park in Tainan, leading up to the 400 anniversary of relations between The Netherlands and Taiwan. The participation of iii in this exchange program is supported by The Creative Industries Fund NL.
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N-Polytope at Transart Festival in Bolzano
N-polytope (After Xenakis) is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting lasers sound sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s-1970s works named “Polytopes” (from the Greek poly many and topos space). As large scale immersive architectural environments that made the indeterminate and chaotic patterns and behavior of natural phenomena experiential through the temporal dynamics of light and the spatial dynamics of sound the polytopes still to this day are relatively unknown but were far ahead of their time: a major landmark in the history of the audio-visual arts and performative architectural practice.
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Verlust included in AUDIOSPHERE: Sound Experimentation 1980-2020
The sound piece "Verlust" is included in the exhibition AUDIOSPHERE: Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-Internet, put together by Francisco Lopez.
By way of a selection of hundreds of sound works, Audiosphere, Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-Internet looks to cover an historical and cultural void in terms of the recognition, exhibition and analysis of a key part of the recent changes that have taken place in the artistic conception of sound creation.
Conceived from a social perspective, and with the aim of revealing and providing context to reflect upon and discuss the techno-cultural changes that have occurred since the 1980s, the exhibition will present the work of a broad number of experimental sound artists, hailing from all over the world, the majority unknown to the contemporary art spectator.
The show will revolve around seven sections, each one addressing different social, technological, historical and cultural processes: genealogies, networks, mega accessibility, cyborgisation, aesthetogenesis, recombination and rights. Although such processes have been generated collectively and today are widespread, they have not been sufficiently identified, acknowledged or analysed artistically.
Audiosphere thus seeks to constitute a non-conceptual, large-scale contemporary art exhibition with no images or objects, underpinned solely by sound works and an exhibition design that facilitates experiential, profound and prolonged listening.
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N-Polytope at 'Open Codes' at ZKM in Karlsruhe
N-polytope (After Xenakis) is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting lasers sound sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s-1970s works named “Polytopes” (from the Greek poly many and topos space). As large scale immersive architectural environments that made the indeterminate and chaotic patterns and behavior of natural phenomena experiential through the temporal dynamics of light and the spatial dynamics of sound the polytopes still to this day are relatively unknown but were far ahead of their time: a major landmark in the history of the audio-visual arts and performative architectural practice.
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N-Polytope at 'In search of Expo 67' in Montréal
N-polytope (After Xenakis) is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting lasers sound sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s-1970s works named “Polytopes” (from the Greek poly many and topos space). As large scale immersive architectural environments that made the indeterminate and chaotic patterns and behavior of natural phenomena experiential through the temporal dynamics of light and the spatial dynamics of sound the polytopes still to this day are relatively unknown but were far ahead of their time: a major landmark in the history of the audio-visual arts and performative architectural practice.
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The Intimate Earthquake Archive, by Sissel Marie Tonn in Het Oog
Sissel Marie Tonn is de winnaar van de Theodora Niemeijer prijs 2016. Zij mag Het Oog een half jaar gebruiken als podium voor haar project The Intimate Earthquake Archive. Vanaf donderdag 10 november kun je de opbouw van haar project volgen in Het Oog. Op donderdagavond 15 december wordt de installatie officieel geopend. The Intimate Earthquake Archive is een interactieve installatie waarin bezoekers de gemeten aardbevingen kunnen ervaren die in Groningen plaatsvonden als gevolg van de gasboringen. Sissel Marie Tonn heeft een archief aangelegd van de niet-natuurlijke aardbevingen in Groningen die geregistreerd zijn door het KNMI. Om mensen niet te overweldigen met deze enorme hoeveelheid data, wil ze een beving juist invoelbaar maken voor iedereen. In de installatie onderzoekt Tonn de relatie tussen natuurlijke fenomenen en menselijke ervaringen. Ik heb meegewerkt het ontwikkelen van de electronica en de geluidscompositie.
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Nigredo
(Marco Donnarumma in collaboration with Marije Baalman) 'Nigredo' is an experience of altered self-perception by means of biophysical media – throwing visitors back on bare humanity. 'Nigredo is not for the faint of heart' say some. 'Nigredo is totally relaxing' say others. Nigredo is an experience of altered self-perception for one visitor at a time by means of biophysical media, created by Marco Donnarumma in collaboration with Marije Baalman. Carefully but resolutely the work pushes visitors to their individual physical and perceptual limits. Completely cut off from the hustle and bustle of the outside world wired and connected up with all manner of sensors and technological devices visitors become cyborgs for eight minutes while being thrown back on bare humanity. Intense auditory, visual and tactile stimuli performed by a machine with pinpoint precision are initiated by the pulsation of one’s own body. It is a feedback process that engages equally the human body and the machine triggering perceptions of one's own body that can only be rationally classified with hindsight. Nigredo is equally reminiscent of our uniformity and uniqueness – for all the immediacy of this self-experience trip, perceived now as too short, now as too long, may take us to the realm of both perceptual expanse and constraint.
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N-Polytope at Nuit Blanche, Paris
N-Polytope is back on tour - this time in Paris during the Nuit Blanche
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Sonobotanics at Coded Matters
Sonobotanics is still a widely unknown science; it studies plants whose life experience is predominantly in the auditory domain. This installation by Marije Baalman is a model of the Periperceptoidae Triquetrus plant and based on the research of 1970’s Dr. Hortensia Audactor. Despite difficulties encountered in the publication of her results Audactor has collected a substantial body of research about the growth patterns communication behaviour and other characteristics of these plants. Recently the field of Predictive Sonobotanics was founded attempting to create models of the plants with the aim of predicting the behaviour of sonobotanic plants and to gain a deeper understanding of the subtleties in sonobotanic plant behaviour.
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n-Polytope - Behaviors of Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis
Every day from 4pm to 6pm.
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Sonic Fabric
For this exhibition I collaborated with Popkalab on a sonic hammock.
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Just Noticeable Difference in Munchen
Just Noticeable Difference goes to Munchen!
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Just Noticeable Difference in Lille
Just Noticeable Difference will be exhibited in Lille!
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n-Polytope at Laboral
N-polytope (After Xenakis) is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting lasers sound sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s-1970s works named “Polytopes” (from the Greek poly many and topos space). As large scale immersive architectural environments that made the indeterminate and chaotic patterns and behavior of natural phenomena experiential through the temporal dynamics of light and the spatial dynamics of sound the polytopes still to this day are relatively unknown but were far ahead of their time: a major landmark in the history of the audio-visual arts and performative architectural practice.
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VLIG - Into the Great Wide Open
Presentation at the Into the Great Wide Open-Festival
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Just Noticeable Difference at Emergencias
Exhibition at the experimental art exhibition in the European Cultural Capital GUIMARÃES in 2012.
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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
| performances | performance installations | exhibitions | larps | residencies | workshops |
| work session | presentations | panel discussions | symposium | meetup | radio |