Femke Dekker (aka Loma Doom) has long been immersed in both sound and education. Across lecture halls, archives, festivals, art galleries, independent radio stations, and dance floors, she orbits two central questions: What if listening itself were an artistic practice? What might unfold when listening becomes method, medium, and material? The book Open Field Listening Station (2026) takes shape around these ideas. Presented as a collaboration between Page Not Found – an artist-run platform dedicated to publishing and experimental practices – and the record label Osàre! Editions, the text originates from Dekker’s graduation thesis for the master of education in arts at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Drawing on the work of scholars and artists – most notably Pauline Oliveros – Dekker approaches listening as a call to action: a way of tuning into one’s surroundings, one’s body, and the urgencies that contour our political and social worlds. The launch takes shape as a listening set that materializes the book’s research, followed by a public dialogue on listening as practice, method, and politics. 

Femke Dekker is a sound-practitioner whose core-practice – both as an artist and as educator – revolves around listening. Under the artist moniker Loma Doom, her signature style revolves around electronic experimentalism, both for mind and movement. She seeks the outliers, avoiding linearity, towards a space where intuition and understanding meet. She holds radio residencies at Stranded FM (with her show Daydream Nation), Radio Tempo Não Pára (with Helter Skelter), and Echobox (with Left of the Dial), and has performed at influential spots such as Salon Des Amateurs, Meakusma, and Cafe Oto, amongst many others. As a contemporary arts educator, she has been a (guest) tutor at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, Design Academy Eindhoven, and currently teaches within the Fine Arts Department of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She is an artistic research fellow for the Amsterdam-based Visual Methodologies Collective.