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DRIFTING

Installation

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

  • June 13, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 14, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 15, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 16, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 17, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 18, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 19, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • April 20, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 21, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

  • June 22, 2025

    Terschelling
    Oerol

    expeditie + voorstelling

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.