DRIFTING
An underwater world, deep in the forest. Among the trees, white, indenable shapes float, like a school of sea organisms drifing through the air, or a still kelp forest gently swaying in the current. An underwater realm where nature and technology merge.
upcoming dates
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February 12, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Caprera -
February 13, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Caprera -
February 14, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 15, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 18, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 19, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 20, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Capera -
February 21, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Capera -
February 22, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 25, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Caprera -
February 26, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Caprera -
February 27, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
February 28, 2026
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Licht Festival Caprera -
March 1, 2026
Bloemendaal
Licht Festival Caprera -
April 16, 2026
Rotterdam
Motel Mozaique -
April 17, 2026
Rotterdam
Motel Mozaique -
May 22, 2026
Detmold
BILDSTÖRING FESTIVAL -
May 23, 2026
Detmold
BILDSTÖRING FESTIVAL -
May 24, 2026
Detmold
BILDSTÖRING FESTIVAL
With DRIFTING, Touki Delphine creates a new ecosystem. Suspended in the forest dunes, 64 reservoirs hover in the air. Electric umbilical cords rise from the forest floor, anchoring the reservoirs, while waves of energy and wind set them adri in the current. Theysing and click like a pod of whales, glowing with the light of bioluminescent plankton. Together, they form a kelp forest; a mystical habitat, sheltering life in the cold depths of the ocean.
Touki Delphine brings this underwater fantasy to life using recycled technology: ethernet cables from the Rataplan, windshield washer, fluid reservoirs (and their pumps) from the scrapyard, and speaker wires from their own collected waste are soldered and glued together into a futuristic superorganism.
The installation is inspired by microscopic life forms from the ocean, such as zooplankton anddiatoms. Invisible to the eye, yet essential to life on Earth. These sea creatures are the quiet engines of our existence. They populate almost all (sea)water and account for roughly 98% of our oxygen and CO2 regulation. They are the building blocks of our survival.
The soundscape of DRIFTING is inspired by the avant-garde pioneers of the 1950s to 1990s, with a subtle wink to Debussy’s La Mer.
The result is a musical landscape in which nature moves to the rhythm of time. The endless motion of everything around us.
