Rijksakademie Open Studios 2025
Preludio — multichannel video and 4D sound installation
Preludio is a multichannel video and 4D sound installation that explores the boundaries of dreams, memories, and digital poetry, giving space to a sonic and visual architecture of presence. The work investigates the body as a chamber, a space to observe and listen from within.
Can dreams be perceived as acts of defiance? As sites of power, expressions of resistance, and reclamations of the self? Like bodies, dreams are in constant transformation, often broken, fragmented, they resist fixed meanings and go beyond images and language.
n the Blue Room, a composition of LED screens display output from self-written software embedded with a programmed malfunction, a kind of poetic virus designed to gradually erase the memory and syntax of written dreams. As the text unravels and recombines, it mirrors the dream’s own logic: nonlinear, broken, and constantly reassembling. In this ongoing mutation, the body, both human and digital, reveals its capacity for survival and reinvention. From this process, a large-scale projection captures moments suspended between human and machine, between nature and code. There is a melodic yet intense sense of inhabiting a body, where the sound acts as a presence, responsive and immersive. The studio becomes a living, breathing system: two air sensors (placed inside and outside the studio) are continuously monitoring shifts in air and temperature between the inside and the outside world. Each fluctuation triggers a textual response, a visceral reflection of the body's constant interaction with its environment, both within and beyond.
reading performance with sound system
