Rewire 2026 marks the sixth edition of Proximity Music, a joint exhibition programme by Rewire and iii, exploring the intersections of music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through immersive, multisensory installations. Running from 9 to 12 April, this year’s programme – Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum – takes place across multiple venues in The Hague’s city centre, and features newly commissioned and adapted works by multidisciplinary artists.
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. Tuning into the hidden rhythms of the physical world, this exhibition transforms materials into portals by encouraging listening beyond the ears.
The installations in The Ongoing Hum emphasise physicality as a vital approach for finding wonder in the seemingly trivial. By taking a deep dive into the characteristics of materials and the knowledge they carry, the works engage the whole body and its relationship to the environment. In doing so, they create moments of pause and sensitivity. 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.
Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum is on view from 9 to 12 April, from 16:00 to 20:00 on Thursday 9 April, then 12:00 to 20:00 daily, free admission (no festival pass required).
Participating locations: Duitse Evangelische Kerk, Paleiskerk, Pulchri, Quartair, West Den Haag, and more TBC
Artists: Aernoudt Jacobs, Anaïs Lossouarn, Floris Vanhoof, Johannes Kreidler, Koenraad de Groot, Lena Kuzmich, Mariska de Groot