Selected Work
Maarten Heijnens
2025

Parallel Realities

PARALLEL REALITIES is a performative installation in which visitors are invited to temporarily inhabit a home that is not their own.

PARALLEL REALITIES is a performative installation in which the visitor is welcomed into a home that is not theirs. Where do we feel at home, and what lies at the core of this feeling?

In the heart of a vibrant public space stands a soundproof cabin that gives you access to various realities that we might call ‘home’. Through a series of ‘sound portraits’ — both live and pre-recorded — the visitor is immersed in darkness and sound, gradually becoming a temporary inhabitant of a space where people, animals, or objects live.

This work uses ambisonic audio technology, allowing the visitor to experience sound spatially through six speakers.

Calendar

  1. Nexus Festival
    Weesp (NL)
  2. De Parade
    Utrecht (NL)
  3. De Parade
    Amsterdam (NL)
  4. De Parade
    Den Haag (NL)
  5. De Parade
    Rotterdam (NL)
  6. Het Nationale Theater
    Den. Haag (NL)

Credits

Concept, Design & Sound Design
Maarten Heijnens
Technical Execution & Spatial Sound Design
Wouter Snoei
Scenographic Advice
Jurr van Diggele, Han Ruíz Buhrs
Control Panel
Arnoud van Delden (WhizzBizz)
Outside Eyes
Celine Daemen (Studio Nergens), Romy Moons & Wieke van Rosmalen
Coproduction
Via Zuid
Made possibly by the support of
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Gemeente Amsterdam, Amarte Fonds, Het Cultuurfonds