Home-delivered artworks to assemble and use yourself (Dutch below)
Inspired by the historical precedent of the Fluxkits published by Fluxus Editions in the 60s and 70s, The Hague based artist organisation iii present ‘iii Sensory Kits’. The Sensory Kits deliver physical, experiential artworks to your doorstep. The kits can be purchased through iii and cost between €25-€50. The first three iii Sensory Kits include works by iii members Wen Chin Fu, Lauren Jetty and Matteo Marangoni with Dieter Vandoren, packaging designed by iii members Koenraad de Groot and Mihalis Shammas.
The kits are original artworks, instruments, compositions and sensory exploration devices which conveniently travel in the mail to be assembled and put to use yourself, either at home or in your daily environment. The artists of iii developed the kits to connect with people during the lockdown. They are excited about the possibilities of this new format and they hope the works will help with the isolation and screen fatigue of lockdown.
iii Sensory Kit #1: Wen Chin: Sugar instrument ‘Tang’
Every material has its hidden sound. Wen Chins Sugar instrument ‘Tang‘ is a musical instrument made of an everyday product – sugar. You can eat sugar in different sugar stages, i.e, syrup ( soft-ball stage) , lollipop (hard-crack stage) and a candy apple (caramel stage). For Tang, you need the sugar at ‘hard-crack’ stage which is around 130°C. Are you curious about what kinds of sounds you will discover through your Tang? This kit will guide you through the process to discover the hidden sound in sugar.
iii Sensory Kit #2: Lauren Jetty: Experimental Perfume ‘ArtScience Body’
‘ArtScience Body’ is a perfume that bends notions of what is considered to be ‘perfume’ by fusing it with what people often attribute to DIY electronic music and media art: burnt electronics, hot metal, the inside of an old speaker, tobacco and soldering. This kit will provide you with the materials needed to create the perfume yourself; already in suitable dilutions, quantities and with pipettes and a bottle for your finished perfume. Set up a miniature perfume lab at home, smell the materials separately, observe how they change when blended together, as well as over time. Become part of the ArtScience Body.

iii Sensory Kit #2, ArtScience Body, Lauren Jetty
iii Sensory Kit #3: Matteo Marangoni and Dieter Vandoren: Sound creature ‘Komorebi’
‘Komorebi’ is an environmental audiovisual instrument that generates music from the moving shadows of trees. You can bring it with you on a walk to the park or put it in your garden and listen to how the music changes in tune with the weather. The shadow play suggests to us that “life” or “aliveness” is not an exclusive property of organic life forms, it is also a property of complex systems that go beyond individual organisms or biological life as we understand it. How can we translate this into music?
The kits were developed with financial support of the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Municipality of The Hague and the Performing Arts Fund NL and are presented in collaboration with Laaktheater and Rewire Festival.
Ordering details and more information HERE

iii Sensory Kit #3, Komorebi, Matteo Marangoni and Dieter Vandoren