About this Event
Blending vocal performance, sound design, fashion, scenography, and video art, Everything Moist Seems Alive translates the sounds of moving and falling water into a modern, immersive myth. Inspired by Astrida Neimanis’ concept of hydrofeminism, the project challenges the illusion of human autonomy and self-containment.
Rather than closed-off fortresses, our bodies are treated as permeable, leaking ecosystems inextricably connected to the planetary water cycle. In the shared economy of moisture, water acts as the ultimate equalizer, dissolving social hierarchies and reminding us that we don't just inhabit our biotope; we are our biotope.
Following the vocal previews at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet's Studio Boekman, the complete performative installation now comes to life at MU Hybrid Art House, Frieda Gustavs’ layered vocal libretto, performed live by a three-part choir, acts as the work’s ritual motor, actively summoning fluid systems and blurring the boundaries between human, moisture, and resonance. These choral chants and frequencies directly drive the physical scenography: an interconnected landscape of water machines, resonant basins, and pulsing pipelines that channel, mist, and circulate water in real time. Moving beyond sound alone, the voices, performers, and visitors ignite the mechanical ecosystem, into one living, shared waterbody.
Doors open: 19:30
Start: 20:00
CREDITS
Creative Direction: MAISON the FAUX & Boris Acket
General Concept & Performance: MAISON the FAUX
Installation & Scenography: Studio Boris Acket
Curator & Research: Angelique Spaninks
Vocal Composition: Frieda Gustavs
Sound Design: Studio Boris Acket
Dramaturgy: Floor Houwink ten Cate
Performers: Jolanda van den Berg, Martha Gardner & Nini Huli
Video: Frederik Heyman
Fashion Design: MAISON the FAUX, in collaboration with Benji Nijenhuis
Atelier: Marloes Dadswell
Creative Engineering: TEAL
Additional engineering, creative coding: Moos Crebolder & Wes Broersen
Head of Operations Studio Boris Acket: Luiza Guidi
Event venue & nearby stays
MU Hybrid Art House, Torenallee 40-06, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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