This immersive light installation was commissioned for Ogri Meti, an event series aimed at inducing an altered state of consciousness through live experimental performance and dance music.
The light installation worked together with the music to further immerse the audience in the experience. Rhythmically intense strobe lights alter the spatial and temporal sensations within the room, allowing the audience to lose themselves to the rhythms of the performers and enter a trance-like state.
The lighting design was inspired by Winti rituals, where people gather together around a bonfire. The colour changes over the course of the event to a futuristic, otherworldly theme transporting the consciousness beyond this earthly plane.
Zij aan Zij tells a story of interconnectedness between the city of Dordrecht and the water surrounding and through it. A story of change, adaptability, and a symbiotic relationship.
There is a forcefulness between both parties, both the city and the water are occupying the same space and need to coexist. Both parties affect the other; controlling or restricting where each can go. If either side is too dominant then that negatively affects both of them. Adaptation is what the city and humanity needs in order to achieve harmony and balance with the water.
The projection screens overhang the water, bridging the gap between the two forces.
This work was commissioned for and exhibited at Het Tij Festival 2022, Dordrecht, NL.
Editing by Daan Boer.
Sound by Rachwill Breidel.
Whoosh (working title) is a work focussed on the physical sensation and experience of air. Bringing us out of our heads and away from our dominant senses, returning our attention to the body and to the sensation of feeling. It is in this physical sensation where we can find peace, calm, and meditation.
A popular method of meditation is to focus on the rhythm of one’s breathing. The combination of the regular rhythm and the internal physical sensation allows your mind to focus on this and away from the turbulent thoughts occupying your brain. This work externalises this rhythmic air, to focus on the sensation of air brushing over one’s body and the sound of it rushing past you. It aims to pull focus to the present, where only the now exists and memories of the past and thoughts of the future hold no place.
‘It moves without direction and transforms with your perspective. It glides and ripples around you; undulating over surfaces and melting into itself, always changing, endlessly reflecting.’
For this piece I developed a new filming technique, using a combination of analogue and digital means, which allowed for a greater variety and fluidity of movement within the video. In combination with the structure; where the audience can stand in a central position and be surrounded by the installation, this created a flowing, pulsing, at times overwhelming experience of the world rushing and transforming around you.
This work was shown at;
Unexpected Smells 2019 - De Electriciteitsfabriek, Den Haag, NL
KABK Graduation Show 2019 - KABK, Den Haag, NL
Into The Great Wide Open 2019 - Vlieland, NL
Boservaring is a site-specific installation created by Kay Churcher and Stefano Zucchini for Into The Great Wide Open 2018.
Since the 1800’s artificial light has been an integral part of human society, making once dangerous areas safe and encouraging us to stay out later. Nowadays we rarely venture beyond the safety of the light. I designed a route through the forest where the audience would continually step forward into the darkness, beyond the safety of the light. Sensors would then detect the presence of people and light up, creating a path for them to follow. The lights illuminate the forest around them and alter its appearance; flattening surfaces, revealing textures, and changing shapes.
Stefano Zucchini designed a soundscape, inspired by the crickets on the island, where sound reaches the audience from multiple directions and they are unable to determine it’s source. The sound changes as participants walk through the installation.
Photographs by Sander Heezen
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This work is an exploration into repetition, infinity, and the surreal inspired by the work of M.C. Escher and Herman Hertzberger. Hertzberger’s visionary architectural style challenged the idea that form follows function, he created “in-between spaces” that allowed users to define how they inhabited it. Escher’s method of combining multiple perspectives of the same scene created surreal and layered realities in his works.
All of the content in this video are images of the old Ministry for Social Affairs building, in The Hague, designed by Herman Hertzberger.
video and sound
This work was exhibited at the Grey Space in the Middle for the exhibition ‘Opening Credits’, which my fellow students and I organised and showed our work in.
An installation consisting of 30 metal sculptures that, like sunflowers with the sun, rotate with the wind. In this field of kinetic works, each sculpture produces a ghostly and abrasive sound when set in motion. The interaction between the sculptures, which are of different heights and dimensions, produces a conversation between the different sounds.
Installed at the Zandmotor, a vast expanse of sand buffeted by wind and exposed to the elements, this piece echoed disparately across the landscape. Due to the currents of the wind the full range of the sound could only be heard once inside the installation, while outside and depending on the winds direction you would only hear snippets of sound before it was rushed away again.
Installation 7: “02/12/16-”
This installation is situated up this staircase.
Please enter one at a time and wait for the previous person to return.
The stairs are uneven, so mind your step.
The ceiling is low, so mind your head.
There is a place for you to lie down and observe.
Take your time.
Materials:
Soil 100kg
Salt Crystals
String 10m
This piece was designed as an explorative experience. At the base of the staircase is a gate at which I stood and explained to the audience what is written above. I gave them a headtorch, opened the gate, and closed it behind them. The room was so dark that the experiencer had to wait a few minutes for their eyes to adjust. As they would move their head, the crystals would glitter and appear to change shape. Each individual returned with a different idea of what they had seen.
This piece was developed during a residency at Fort 1881 in Hoek van Holland, Netherlands. As a small group we slept, ate, and worked in this 135 year old Fortress, while learning about the history of the building and surrounding landscape.
I was inspired by the labyrinthine layout and cave-like atmosphere of the building, so I added the soil to give the space more of an earthy scent. I introduced the crystals after researching cave-systems.
I settled on this non-representational design as it best created the mysterious and inexplicable feeling that I wanted for the audience.
This piece was an interactive installation shown at De Fabreik in Eindhoven as part of a residency with my fellow students.
The theme of the residency was ‘Repetition’, this piece reflects that in its physical structure where material is hung in mirror symmetry. An open corridor is created down the centre of the structure, as people walk through it they activate the LED’s.
This was an experimental piece, playing with structure and finding different forms in which to express my ideas.
