1 DROP 1000 YEARS - Scientists agree that a drop of water travels the globe in less than 1,000 years. This drop shapes our world: it transports nutrients, heat and living organisms, while regulating our planet's climate and ecosystems. It contributes to the fundamental process of life's equilibrium.

Drawing on data from the Global Conveyor Belt, the vast ocean current that orchestrates the mixing of water from the five oceans and redistributes heat on a global scale, Martin Messier underlines the fundamental role of water as a vital substance. Yet, over the past two centuries, human action has been shaking this fragile balance: the gradual slowing of this ocean current could trigger a major climatic upheaval, threatening the entire chain of life.

In this hypnotic performance, the artist explores the tensions between the global currents that drive planetary equilibrium, and the intimate currents that resonate within each of us. Fifteen suspended devices, veritable kinetic sculptures, orchestrate the flow of water particles in real time, materializing oceanic dynamics. The patterns generated, fed by data such as the temperature and salinity of the Pacific Ocean, intertwine in a visual and sonic choreography. 1 drop 1000 years reveals itself as a masterful, poetic ballet, conveying the fragility of ecosystems and the delicate harmony that binds all things on Earth.

Martin Messier 
1 DROP 1000 YEARS
Mapping Festival

Organism: In Turbulence
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent formations.

“Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of a century-old organ to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression. In concerts, Organism’s shifting metastable states allow for its energetic thresholds to fall into and out of compatibility with one another. Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.” – Navid Navab

Concert: Navid Navab – Organism: In Turbulence - Set 1
15.05.2026 at 22:00

Concert: Navid Navab - Organism: In Turbulence - Set 2
16.05.2026 at 21:30

Curated by Dietmar Lupfer – a collaboration between the Munich Biennale 2026 and Muffatwerk Munich

The Münchener Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre – celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026! 
Numerous international composers are confronting the complexities of our present-day in a bold and experimental manner, alert to the contradictions of our time. Together with their artistic teams they create music-theatre worlds that sharpen our gaze, fuel resistance, and give us hope; they connect us and solicit conversation about unforeseen ways of watching and listening. 

Navid Navab

Exhibition on view until 31 May 2026

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam breathes new life into the former dance hall and cinema Monopole with art. Silence & The Presence of Everything is an exhibition full of intriguing art installations exploring natural phenomena. Immerse yourself in magical natural phenomena and experience captured sunbeams, weather systems of dust and light, swaying reeds from Schiedam bending with the Minnesota wind, boundless horizons, and dancing droplets flowing toward the center of the earth.

The art installations of artists Sabine Marcelis, Guido van der Werve, Tina Farifteh, Lachlan Turczan, David Bowen, Gordon Hempton, Lily Clark, Carel Balth, and Boris Acket are spread throughout the Monopole. The artist Boris Acket, is also the guest curator of the exhibition, alongside co-curator Sanneke Huisman.

tele-present wind
This installation by David Bowen consists of a series of 126 x/y tilting mechanical devices connected to thin dried plant stalks installed in a gallery and a dried plant stalk connected to an accelerometer installed outdoors. When the wind blows it causes the stalk outside to sway. The accelerometer detects this movement transmitting the motion to the grouping of devices in the gallery. Therefore the stalks in the gallery space move in real-time and in unison based on the movement of the wind outside.

David Bowen 
tele-present wind
Monopole

Artists Laura Colmenares Guerra and Julien Clauss, both recipients of the “Arts, Sciences & Tech” grant awarded by KIKK, TRAKK, Le Pavillon and the Cultural Center of Namur, open the doors to their residencies and invite you to discover the results of their research. A moment of discovery and exchange in a friendly atmosphere!

The aim of this residency is to foster interdisciplinary research, experimentation, and artistic creation through digital and technological media, by offering a framework conducive to exploration, prototyping, and dialogue between disciplines.

Laura Colmenares Guerra is a Colombian artist based in Brussels. Her artistic practice moves between technology, environmental awareness, and installation art. She explores the complex relationships between contemporary Western societies and nature, with particular attention to ecosystems and environmental justice through interactive installations, sculptures, and the use of 3D.

The Persistent Elsewhere explores Timothy Morton’s theory of hyperobjects, things that surpass us and remain unseen, yet are present and interact with us through corporeality. Morton questions what we feel in the presence of these entities when they are not merely described but inhabited: like a pressure, an immersion, a loss of distinction between one’s body and its surroundings.

The Persistent Elsewhere is an immersive real-time 3D visual essay created using the Unreal Engine 3D generator. The viewer is guided through an ever-evolving inner landscape that originates within the body, expands through aquatic, industrial, and geological spaces, while remaining, at all scales, within. The body contains the hyperobject just as the hyperobject contains the body.

Discover the innovative research and the installations, while immersing yourself in the creative processes. A unique opportunity to explore their stimulating work around art, sound, and science. Don’t miss this chance to meet the artists and be part of the KIKK adventure!

Laura Colmenares Guerra
CCN - Centre culturel de Namur
KIKK