Das Leben am Haverkamp

What’s left speaks is an immersive sound installation by Felix Bell, Gaia D’Arrigo and Nuno Lobo that imagines speakers as chimeric creatures emerging from the remnants of a post-human environment. The installation creates a speculative environment which invites you to discover how these creatures exist, communicate, and connect.
The creature-like sculptures are scattered throughout the space. They hang from the ceiling and emerge from the ground; cables as veins, decayed components as organs, and supports act as a skeleton. These beings evoke associations with bodies, from which sounds resonate and slowly reveal themselves. Vocal fragments, rhythmic pulses and whispers. There is something about it that feels unmistakably human. The creatures’ sounds seem to move between the sculptures and together appear to form something resembling a choir.

Central to the installation is the human need to seek a sense of community, in a detached technological society. The human voice is disconnected from the body, and the creature-like sculptures respond without clear control, creating a tension between human and more-than-human, between recognition and alienation.

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.