JEROEN ZWAAP.
QUESTION / AN OPEN ENQUIRY

How do we attend
to another world?

What happens when the world is more than a subject to be observed?

An observation becomes an invitation to encounter. I am interested in situations in which light, water, plants, atmospheric conditions, technologies and the people who approach them can influence what becomes perceptible — and how meaning takes shape.

A transparent glass structure holding a small planted environment, with sensors or equipment nearby; sunlight and reflections shape the view
The Sensorium · photographic study of a mediated environment
FOLLOW THE QUESTION ↓
01 / ATTENDING
A research question, not a claim that the environment communicates in human language.

Listening before interpreting

To attend to a more-than-human world is not necessarily to translate it into a familiar human story. It can begin with creating the conditions in which a change of light, a shifting atmosphere or a material response has consequences for what we experience.

Such encounters are never unmediated. The camera, microphone, computational system and my own choices help determine what can register, what can change and what remains outside attention.


02 / TWO WAYS TO CONTINUE
RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENT

Narrative agency of the
more-than-human

This enquiry continues through the works and experiments. A dedicated board has not yet been published.

Documentation in progress
ENCOUNTER AN ARTWORK

The Sensorium

Enter an installation in which environmental conditions are brought into an immersive sonic encounter. Watch the film and listen to its soundscape.

Encounter the work ↗

An environment is not merely where an encounter takes place. It helps shape what the encounter can become.