Erica van Loon Erica van Loon

Sonohr Festival, Bern

22 February 2025
Sonohr Festival, Bern

The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In will be presented at Sonohr Festival.

The SONOHR festival is a three-day celebration of creative documentary and fictional audio stories that are rich in sound. The event also allows for an active exchange between authors and the audience. It offers the unique experience of enjoying thrilling radio dramas, intriguing documentaries, experimental sound art or interactive audio walks together with friends and like-minded people in high-quality sound and in the comfortable setting of a cinema.

More info about the program can be found at https://sonohr.ch/programm/

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Exhibition: The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In

21 - 28 January 2024
Exhibition at P//////AKT, Amsterdam

The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In is an audio work that invites listeners to envelop themselves in a sensuous environment where borders between bodies blur. Insides become outsides as Van Loon’s guiding words mix with a detailed soundscape, for which she collaborated with composer Daniel Steiner.

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Artist talk at Musashino Art University, Tokyo

21 September 2023

Happy to give another artist talk for the amazing inquisitive students of Musashino Art University in Tokyo! And very pleased to have Satoshi Ikeda on my side again for translation and general cheerleading of my practice.

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AIR at Casa di Rosa

9 July – 16 July 2023 short mountain residency at Casa di Rosa, Loco, Switzerland
I’ll be working together with composer and sound designer Daniel Steiner on the sound design for my upcoming project.

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Reveil#10: 24+1 hour broadcast

5AM London time (UTC+1) on Saturday 6 MAY to 6AM on Sunday 7 MAY 2023
organized by SOUNDTENT
REVEIL travels West on live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, making a loop over one earth day.

Together with composer and sound designer Daniel Steiner I’ll be joining the stream. We’ll broadcasting from the Paleolithic caves on the southern slope of Homberg mountain in Switzerland

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Exhibition: Altered States

28 April – 9 June 2023
Exhibiton at THE JONES INSTITUTE, San Francisco

Guest curator: Shirley Watts (Natural Discourse)
Artists: Erin Espelie, Megan Gafford, Susan Schwarzenberg, Erica van Loon and Gail Wight

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Artist talk at Musashino Art University, Tokyo

19 May 2022
Once again I’ve had the pleasure of bugging students of Musashino Art University in Tokyo with my ramblings, about ants’ asses, cutting up brains and stress in rocks. Plus a sneak peek into my new projects.

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AIR at Fundaziun Nairs

June + October + November 2021
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at NAIRS, contemprary art centre, Scuol, Switzerland
Back in the mountains, working at Fundaziun NAIRS!

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Catalogue ARCUS Project

13 March 2021
The catalogue of ARCUS Project of 2018/2019 is out!
Including images and text about my project that I developed during the wonderful residency time in Moriya, Japan.

https://www.arcus-project.com/en/report/

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Kijkclub #22

14 May 2020, 8:30 PM – 10 PM
Edition #22, Het Voyeuristische Kijkgat (The voyeuristic peephole)

Montly evening at Torpedo Theater, for lovers of discoveries.

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YBHNS on Radio Free Gowanus

19 March 2020
RADIO FREE GOWANUS, New York
"Your Brain Has No Smell" is playing on Radio Free Gowanus this evening!

Tune in here: http://www.radiofreegowanus.org/broadcast

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Grant by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

Best birthday present! Through the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds I was awarded a grant from Tijl Fonds for my new project.
https://www.cultuurfonds.nl/

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Essay: A Brief History of Invisibility

Essay by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti @ publishing house NERO
On the production of an imaginary in absence, reflecting on the political potential to inhabit invisibility

Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti on Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora) at Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
Read it here: A Brief History of Invisibility. On the production of an imaginary in absence, reflecting on the political potential to inhabit invisibility

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