What's left speaks is an immersive sound installation by spatial designer Felix Bell, visual artist and researcher Gaia D’Arrigo, and composer Nuno Lobo that imagines speakers as chimeric creatures emerging from the remnants of a post-human environment. The creature-like sculptures are scattered throughout the space, both hanging from the ceiling and emerging from the ground with cables as veins, decayed components as organs, and supports acting as skeletons. Vocal sounds resonate from these speaker-bodies – fragmentary, pulsating, and whispery yet unmistakably human. Playing in the dichotomies between recognition and alienation and between the human and more-than-human, the installation takes as its central idea the need for humans to seek a sense of community within detached technological societies.

The project was commissioned by Das Leben am Haverkamp and developed in the context of Rewire festival as part of a long-term collaboration between the two platforms. Together they create space for experimental crossovers between fashion, visual art, and music.