2024
Inside Cycles: Live
Audio-visual performance
Developed during a 3-month multidisciplinary collaboration with a team of visual artists and designers, Inside Cycles: Live is centred around an audio-reactive 3D light sculpture that makes use of cutting-edge projection mapping techniques. Read more…
2023
Heart of a Glacier
Audio-visual installation
How do humans come to terms with environmental change? Video and sound recordings made at a depth of 30 metres in the receding Morteratsch Glacier create an immersive space that invites us to attune to the textures of this remote water world. Read more…
2024
Take Me To Space
Music video
In a surreal and symbolic animated world conjured with GenAI, Take Me To Space explores the cyclical experience of losing oneself in the chaos of modern life, and finding a way to become grounded once again. These themes recur throughout Leonard Maassen’s upcoming album, ‘Inside Cycles’. Read more…
2024
Borrowed Blood
Short film
Borrowed Blood explores how recent surgical advances towards head transplantation evoke a new paradigm in consciousness and memory: the patchwork body as post-human norm. The narrator reminisces about the surgical experience, coming to terms with an unprecedented visceral-emotional reality. Watch…
2024
Polylith
3D audio-visual sculpture
Using the latest projection mapping technology and spatial sound, the Polylith installation activates 3D sculptural forms to explore the pliability of surface in the digital age. Read more…
2023
How Do You Frame It?
Film
Our imagination of the unfolding climate crisis exists in ever-evolving word-clouds of scientific jargon, emotive language and populist hooks. How Do You Frame It? collects popular search terms in relation to the word ‘climate’, reformulating them as an onslaught of transient impressions. Read more…
2023
Border Stories
Video installation
Border Stories explores the traces of historical conflict in Cyprus. With film and audio footage collected across both the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish-occupied North, the artists examine how residents in the border zones of geopolitical entities articulate processes of identity-making. Read more…
2024
Re-Synthesis of a Ritual Space
Audio installation
Based on an acoustic analysis of the Chapter House in Durham Cathedral, Re-Synthesis of a Ritual Space utilises the resonant qualities of the space to generate slow-evolving sound textures that invite listeners to dwell and reflect in this ancient place of worship. Read more…
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