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| printed rugs with listening instructions, various sizes and designs (photo Chroniques- Biennale of digital imagination, 2023, Marseille) |
intro-active sound meditations
series of rugs and doormats, since 2020,
Imagine there was no roof invites visitors to brief sound meditations while standing on the rugs. The meditations emphasize imaginative listening by evoking inner sounds. Imagining, as much as remembering and anticipating, are all listening spaces adjacent to acoustics.
The series is taken from the artist’s installation concept House of Ear, in which he creates spatial installations from an ever-growing growing collection of pieces and formats. Each of which plays in its own way on the imaginary and concrete spaces of listening and hearing.
For this, the experience of sound is regarded as that of a movement: a back and forth, between the inner and outer spaces of our body, from the opposite wall, through our spiral shaped ear directly into the brain, and into the last corners of thought. And back.
While we hear sound, while sound swirls around us, we think it too. Somewhat analytically, yet also quite creatively: we think our hearing into existence. This physical and cognitive intrinsic element of the acoustic experience is the departure point and the source of the
aesthetic results in the works.
Imagine there was no roof invites visitors to brief sound meditations while standing on the rugs. The meditations emphasize imaginative listening by evoking inner sounds. Imagining, as much as remembering and anticipating, are all listening spaces adjacent to acoustics.
The series is taken from the artist’s installation concept House of Ear, in which he creates spatial installations from an ever-growing growing collection of pieces and formats. Each of which plays in its own way on the imaginary and concrete spaces of listening and hearing.
For this, the experience of sound is regarded as that of a movement: a back and forth, between the inner and outer spaces of our body, from the opposite wall, through our spiral shaped ear directly into the brain, and into the last corners of thought. And back.
While we hear sound, while sound swirls around us, we think it too. Somewhat analytically, yet also quite creatively: we think our hearing into existence. This physical and cognitive intrinsic element of the acoustic experience is the departure point and the source of the
aesthetic results in the works.
Permanent installation:
- Concertgebouw Brugges, Belgium from October 2024/February 2025 on
- hand-tufted rug, 185cm x 117cm with three deep listening instructions, tufting by Atelier WHAT THE FLUFF! (aka Pauline Miko, Brussels)
- two printed mats
Exhibited in group and solo shows:
- Art Track Jeju, Cociety Village, Jeju Island, South Korea, (the poster version in) House of Ear, solo, Sept 2023
- Chroniques- Biennale of digital imagination, Marseille, 10 Nov 2022 - 22 Jan 2023 (VR tour)
- Basis, Frankfurt, "We can be Heroes", 2021
- D-Museum (Daelimmuseum)in Seoul, South Korea, 2020 -2021 (more info in extra post)
hand-tufted rug, permanently installed at Concertgebouw Brugges (BE) since 2024 tufted by Atelier What The Fluff! printed rug, permanently installed at Concertgebouw Brugges (BE) since 2025 printed rug, permanently installed at Concertgebouw Brugges (BE) since 2025 
printed rugs with listening instructions, various sizes and designs (photo at Basis, Frankfurt, 2021)
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| 4 rugs for Chroniques Biennale in Marseille 2022 |
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| version for Basis, Frankfurt (2021) |
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| version for D Museum, Seoul (2020/21) |
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| impressions from Art Track Jeju, South Korea, 2023 |
And here Robert Henke (Monolake) on a carpet in Seoul. Bad picture, good company.
