DRIFTING

“A calm, dreamlike environment where nature and technology blend into one.”

With DRIFTING, Touki Delphine creates a new ecosystem: suspended high in the theatrical space, 64 reservoirs float in mid-air. They sing and click like a pod of whales, glowing with the soft 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 ocean life: zooplankton, diatoms, and other tiny yet essential beings. Invisible to the human eye, they regulate almost all of Earth’s oxygen and CO₂ balance. They are the quiet engines of our survival. The soundscape of DRIFTING draws on the avant-garde pioneers of the 1950s to the 1990s, with a subtle wink to Debussy’s La Mer. It creates a musical landscape in which nature seems to move with the rhythm of time; the endless motion of everything around us. DRIFTING can be experienced as a meditative visual installation: wander through the space, sit down, listen, and drift along.

About Touki Delphine
Amsterdam-based Touki Delphine (Bo Koek, Rik Elstgeest, Chris Doyle and John van Oostrum) is a boundary-pushing collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists making waves nationally and internationally with their monumental light and sound installations made from recycled materials. Their work creates poetic encounters between humans and machines. Inspired by natural phenomena, the climate crisis and the idea of nature as a living whole, they explore how technology can not only alienate but also connect.

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