Interview on RaBe
Sonohr Festival, Bern
21 – 23 February 2025
SONOHR Festival, Bern, Switzerland
The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In will be presented at SONOHR Festival, a three-day celebration of creative documentary and fictional audio stories that are rich in sound.
AIR at Index Freiraum
Artist in residence at Index Freiraum, Zürich (CH)
Essay in Tubelight: Luchtkomma
Dec – Feb. 2024/25
Luchtkomma, over het werk van Erica van Loon, JJJJJerome Ellis en Open Group, an essay by Helena Julian for Tubelight, magazine for contemporary art – #128.
Artist talk at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
External critic at final exams Minerva Art Academy
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.
Artist talk at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Try out: The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In
9 - 10 September 2023, PUNTWG, Amsterdam
Come lay down your brain and focus on gut feelings during the soft launch of my project The Second the Water Wets Your Face, Reflexes of Your Aquatic Ancestors Kick In, a new audio work I’m developing in collaboration with composer Daniel Steiner.
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.
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
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
External critic at final exams Minerva Art Academy
Artist talk at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
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.
Grant by Mondriaan Fund
Very good news! The Mondriaan Fund will support my practice for the upcoming 6 months.
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!
Grant by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Happy news! Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst is supporting my current project.
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/
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.
Klingt gut! 5th International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio
12 May 2021 – 15 May 2021
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
KLG 2020/21 will have a special focus on sonic art, sound design, electro-acoustic music, spatial audio and extended / digital realities.