Luisterwandelingen

Sound walks
Year: 2023 - 2024

"Luisterwandelingen" is an annual soundwalking project taking place in four different landscapes in Wageningen. The botanical garden Belmonte Arboretum, the city centre, Droevendaal community and the floodplains next the Rhine river. During the walks we listened attentively to the landscapes, played with the soundscapes and attuned to the underwater world of the Rhine with hydrophones. The walks offered a platform to connect with the landscapes through embodied ways and follow the stories of each place by listening.

_{Walking to the Rhine}

_{Listening to raindrops, Arboretum Belmonte}

_{Listening to the reverberating voices, De Grote Kerk}

_{Playing with making the flower sound, Arboretum Belmonte} 

Photos: Livia Franssen
Funding: Stichting Cultuurstad Wageningen.

Sound Bath

Performance
2024

Slow Ye Down

Radio show
2024

Tastes of Community

Community installation
Year: 2024 

Tastes of Community is a mobile table installation that explores the rich and diverse world of community kitchens. Community kitchens are more than places to eat; they are vibrant hubs where people come together to cook, share stories, and support one another. Our project ‘Tastes of Community’ maps the diverse kitchens in Wageningen and their unique contributions to society. Over the summer, we travelled to different community kitchens in town and gave a storytelling & art workshop followed by a communal meal. We also participated in the largest communal meal in Wageningen’s history the ‘Dinner on the Dike. Through sound recording, embroidery and lino prints we ask the locals to respond to the question ‘what communal meals mean to you?’. Our experiences and conversations inspired the making of a mobile installation with a pop-up kitchen table, a collectively created tablecloth and reused glasses featuring the names of everyone who contributed to the installation. A table that will serve as a meeting ground, wherever it will go from here.

Kristina Mau Hansen – concept developer, facilitator & recording
Zennu Haile Michael – facilitator and project initiator
Livia Franssen: maker & photographer
Ingi Mehus - facilitator & storytelling coach
Claralina - recording support
Tejal - community meal chef

Tastes of Community is supported by: Stichting Ver-binding, Stichting Haella, Wageningen Doet en Wageningse Cultuurzomer.

Special thanks to all project participants, all community kitchens who welcomed us, De Superette team, Food of Cultures and the artmarket Montmartre aan de Rijn.

Sound Carpet 

Community sound installation
Year: 2023 - 2024 

Everyone listens differently, our perception of sound is unique. Sound Carpet is a community project about different ways of listening to the Lombok neighbourhood. It weaves together fields recordings on cassettes and embroidery of what Lombok means to us, what we notice when walking through the neighbourhood and what we want to voice.


From November 2023 to January 2024, I organised several workshops with community members and De Voorkamer’s Crafting with Textiles group. We listened, recorded, composed and embroidered sounds from Lombok neighbourhood. The recordings on the cassettes were taking during two soundwalks. When we go for a sound walk in community, we can get closer to others’ perception of the world. Via attuning to the soundscape, we attuned to each other.


The embroidery on the wall carpet is inspired by the recordings we took during the soundwalks. Community members from the weekly Crafting with Textiles group were invited to trace with needle and thread what came to mind when listening to the recordings.


Now we are inviting you to listen to the cassettes and take a soundwalk in the neighbourhood. Which sounds draw your attention, bring up memories and do you connect with?

The people that made this project special are many! Making this work is the result of the collective participation, creativity and support of more than 50 people. Some of you shaped took part from the beginning to the end of cooking this project, some of you contributed here and there some flavours. What matters is that everyone shaped our experience in unique ways. THANK YOU for that!

Special gratitude goes to:

Ana, Fernandes, Hani, Joseph, Juliette and Nima who made a composition for the cassettes. Oliva and Philine for hosting the weekly Crafting with Textile sessions at De Voorkamer, Renata for giving us a taste of the world of knitting machines, Fiona and Meghann for introducing me to De Voorkamer, Yetunde and the cooking group for the magic that you create in community kitchens. Betina and Juliette, design coordinators of the residency, for being there to think together, to sea more clearly in moments of fogginess and always feel supported along the way. To the Voorkamer and everyone working and volunteering there for being who you are, working on making a space for connection, curiosity and playfulness. A place where everyday life gets to feel more magical and where we meet each other in our differences and sameness!