Kat Austen is a person. In her artistic practice, she focusses on environmental issues. She melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances and participatory work. Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future.

During her residency, Kat will be working on Plastic Echoes, in which she aims to develop an instrument that can create sound from interaction with microplastic particles based on ultra-sound sensing methods. Typically, microplastics are detected through filtration and visual identification.

inneruu is a multidisciplinary band based in The Hague, exploring interactive happenings and spatial projections while maintaining a focus on songwriting. Their sound shifts between loud electronics and intimate acoustic pieces, creating contrast, storytelling, and new ways to engage the audience within band culture. The group consists of Wouter Mol, Michiel de Haan, Lennard van der Valk, and Myra-Ida van der Veen.

During this experience the audience will discover inneruu through interactive elements when it means to become part of inneruu. Giving life to glowing wine glasses, awakening a collective phone orchestra and choiring tickling tongues, inneruu will invite the audience to play, explore, and connect — one drop at a time, merging into a collective experience.

Valerio Conti, originally from San Marino, is an artist, architect, and musician currently living in Den Haag. By adopting a polyphony of media, Valerio explores intimate experiences that transcend the boundaries between the virtual and the physical. Exploring subjectivity and objectification, Valerio weaves together subconscious collective pornographic memories, loneliness of desire, and the ubiquity of screens.

collective moans of a vacuum cleaner features a collective attunement of household appliances and people. The project merges an installation component with a performative aspect, exploring pornographic processes and inter-human intimacies. A series of unfolding elements that sit between images and sculptures are scattered throughout the space, participating in the choir.