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Pelagic
Ambient ~ Listening Event
Scenography@pelagic_ambient
PELAGIC꩜ is a series of ambient listening sessions mainly in Rotterdam, creating spaces for gathering, presence and intentional listening. This edition took place at Bruidplaats, a community space in the south of Rotterdam, situated on a small island surrounded by nature.
For the spatial intervention, I wanted to translate the fluidity of sound into the physical environment. Hanging textiles moved softly through the space, introducing a sense of water, suspension and continuous flow. Natural elements, lace and beads came together to form a circular portal. Acting as an anchor between the physical and the imagined, the portal invited visitors to cross into a quieter, dreamlike state, one where listening extends beyond sound and into the body, the environment, and one another.
The portal became an anchor within the space: a threshold to enter through, listen from, and drift towards. Rather than creating a backdrop for the event, the set was conceived as an environment that could hold the collective act of listening and allow the body to move between presence and reverie.
images by Mark Julian Loopstra and @nowrelease