During their residency, Julia E. Dyck and Liew Niyomkarn are developing a series of sculptural speaker-shrines that merge psychoacoustic research with experimental sound and material practice. Drawing inspiration from grottos and speculative sanctuaries, they investigate how resonance, tuning systems, and frequency shape embodied listening and affective perception. Constructed from found and recycled materials, the shrines function as resonant instruments and sonic architectures in their ongoing exploration of sound as a medium for transformation and collective attunement.

 

 

Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician based in Brussels. She studied Experimental Sound Practices at CalArts with Mark Trayle and Michael Pisaro-Lou, and Sonology course with Justin Bennet.  Liew’s work focuses on the practice of listening, and harmonic spectra of musical tones and their potential interrelationships, using string instruments such as a zither, lap steel, but also Supercollider, a coding language, to investigate and create different timbres —- a result of spontaneous perceptual shifts. Liew composes music driven by long resonances, sustain and repetition, and field recordings of environments to detect time and space.  Liew has presented her work internationally and collaborated with a range of artists and filmmakers. She has performed in several festivals such as  Rewire ( Den Haag),  Oscillation ( Brussels) ,  Dour Festival ( Dour) , Meakusma ( Eupen) , Here/hear Stuk, (Leuven)  Seendosi (Seoul)  and many more.

 

 
Julia E. Dyck is a Canadian artist and hypnotherapist based in Brussels whose multidisciplinary practice merges sound, performance, and expanded states of consciousness to explore the porous boundaries between body, technology, and the (sub)conscious. Rooted in relational and speculative methodologies, her work invites audiences into immersive experiences of collective transformation, using voice, vibration, and storytelling as portals to new modes of perception and presence.Julia is a member of the Audio Placebo Plaza collective, a feminist experiment in radical sonic care and placebo aesthetics, and the t.r.a.n.c.e community hypnosis project. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Karachi Biennale (PK), LOOP (KR), Bétonsalon (FR), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Cafe OTO (UK), Q-O2 (BE), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR), Musée d’art de Joliette (CA), Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève (CH), and Darling Fonderie (CA).