When I think back to September 2025, to The Lab, to sharing The Lab with its audience, I feel a wave of excitement, fulfillment, and gratitude.
The process of creating The Lab was unpredictable and forced me to listen carefully and respond. Throughout the process, I continually sought to stimulate and optimize the interaction between the installation, the audience, and me as the artist. Especially with my methodology, in which the work engages the audience’s body, it’s necessary to let visitors into the creative process early on. But no matter how much research you do as a creator, and how much you test, every visitor brings their own perception and background, and no preconceived concept can do justice to someone’s personal experience.
Opening the doors of The Lab underlined a principle that’s very important to me: The work only truly begins when the audience encounters it. Now, over 900 visitors later, I’m finally truly getting to know this work, with all its quirks, wonders, and depths. The work was born in that encounter. And through the audience’s reflection, I also get to know myself better as a creator. The Lab, short for both labyrinth and laboratory, let us wander in uncertainty, but also set us—audience and creators—in motion. We literally took steps, without anything to hold on to, through the discomfort of uncertainty, with nothing but trust and a faint light guiding us. Thank you, dear audience, for your courage, insights, and bringing The Lab to life.
We’ve collected all the echoes from The Lab. Here you can listen to three of them, more to come soon.
Echo from The Lab ➤ sound fragment 1
Echo from The Lab ➤ sound fragment 2
Echo from The Lab ➤ sound fragment 3
Fotografie Marieke Josselet / Koelhuis in Eindhoven / 27 september 2025
Fotografie Loet Koreman / Koepelhal Tilburg / 9 september 2025
Fotografie Marieke Josselet / Podium Bloos Breda / 24 juli 2025