What’s left speaks is an immersive sound installation by Felix Bell, Gaia D’Arrigo and Nuno Lobo that imagines speakers as chimeric creatures emerging from the remnants of a post-human environment. The installation creates a speculative environment which invites you to discover how these creatures exist, communicate, and connect.
13 March 2026–12 April 2026
The creature-like sculptures are scattered throughout the space. They hang from the ceiling and emerge from the ground; cables as veins, decayed components as organs, and supports act as a skeleton. These beings evoke associations with bodies, from which sounds resonate and slowly reveal themselves. Vocal fragments, rhythmic pulses and whispers. There is something about it that feels unmistakably human. The creatures’ sounds seem to move between the sculptures and together appear to form something resembling a choir.
Central to the installation is the human need to seek a sense of community, in a detached technological society. The human voice is disconnected from the body, and the creature-like sculptures respond without clear control, creating a tension between human and more-than-human, between recognition and alienation.
The project was commissioned by Das Leben am Haverkamp and developed in the context of Rewire Festival as part of a long-term collaboration between the two platforms. Together they create space for experimental crossovers between fashion, visual art and music.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Felix Bell (orse audio) is a spatial designer who explores the power of sound in public spaces through speaker installations. With transdisciplinary design research, he tells stories that connect culture and nature and draws attention to invisible relationships in modern life. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 3D Design from Manchester School of Art (2014) and a Master’s degree in Fine Art and Design, Geo-Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2022).
Gaia D’Arrigo is a visual artist, social designer, and researcher. Through material research and fact-fictional storytelling, she develops site-specific projects that explore human contributions to pollution and contaminated landscapes. Her work creates tangible data, hybrid narratives and speculative creatures, that address social and ecological issues, while questioning human–environment dichotomies. Gaia graduated cum laude with an MA in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Nuno Lobo is a composer and has been teaching composition in the Advanced Rhythm department at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2024. As a composer he explores surrealist environments, virtual operas, and interdisciplinary projects. Cinema, physics, and health disorders inspire his work. Nuno obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition from ESMAE, Porto, and a Master’s degree in composition and conducting from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
OPENING during HOOGTIJ
13 March, 19:00—23:00 h
OPENING HOURS
Saturdays and Sundays
14 March—5 April, 11:00—17:00 h
REWIRE FESTIVAL
no ticket required
10—12 April, 12:00—19:00 h
ON APPOINTMENT
for visits outside opening hours mail to joost@daslebenamhaverkamp.com
LOCATION
Stille Veerkade 19, The Hague
free entrance and partly wheelchair accessible