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location: Electrify Everything
Electrify Everything turns the seductive spectacle of Enlightenment-era electrical demonstrations into a critical inquiry into the origins of the units and language that have shaped electricity for three centuries. The performance reflects on electricity’s structuring power and its ties to resources and exploitation. Pom Bouvier-b and Marjolijn Dijkman perform with experimental instruments that translate electric charges and magnetic variations into sound. Dijkman’s high-voltage electrophotography contributions reveal microscopic interactions, giving electricity an animistic presence. A text by Jean Katambayi Mukendi, voiced by François Makanga, traces the history and current realities of energy production through electrical terminology.
© Amélie Bouvier
Marjolijn Dijkman is a research-led, multidisciplinary artist working with film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the intersection of culture and other fields of inquiry, with a strong focus on the rapidly changing environment and its human and non-human interdependencies. In 2005, she co-founded the artist-run organisation Enough Room for Space, and is a Ph.D. researcher at LUCA/KU Leuven (2023-2027).
Pom Bouvier-b’s sound practice weaves a singular approach to music with inventive listening. She composes electroacoustic works, improvises in varied ensembles, creates performative spaces, sound walks, collective gesture scores, and handmade instruments. Trained in fine arts, sound engineering, and composition, her work sits between music, visual art, and embodied practices.