Proximity Music is a joint exhibition programme initiated by iii and Rewire. It seeks to connect sound, architecture, and technology through intimate sensory experiences across various locations in The Hague. This year’s edition, Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum, focuses on attuning to the seemingly inaudible rhythms, vibrations, and radiations that coexist in our environment. The exhibition brings together diverse instruments and compositions that stimulate new ways of perceiving our everyday surroundings: from tapping into the electricity of cyanobacteria and sensing the heartbeat of strangers to the barely audible frequencies resonating in ceramic vessels and immersion in a hypnotic humming top soundscape. 

In a time shaped by instant gratification, digital polarisation, and the numbing effects of the screen, these works ask for slowness, attentiveness, and physical presence – positioning embodied listening as an act of connection and quiet resistance. The exhibition features work by Aernoudt Jacobs, Anaïs Lossouarn, Floris Vanhoof, Johannes Kreidler, Koenraad de Groot, Lena Kuzmich, and Mariska de Groot.

Join the opening conversation with artists Aernoudt Jacobs, Anaïs Lossouarn, Johannes Kreidler, Koenraad de Groot, Lena Kuzmich, Mariska de Groot, and Ezequiel Menalled (iii), moderated by Katía Truijen (Rewire).