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Museum Night: BELONGALONG in ARTIS-Micropia

special program
  • toegangsticket Museumnacht
  • ARTIS-Micropia

Bring microbes to life yourself during Museum Night at ARTIS-Micropia with the instrument BELONGALONG. Together with other visitors, you’ll create a soundscape where art and science come together.

BELONGALONG

During Museum Night at Micropia, you won’t just make music, you’ll create a sensory experience: vibrations you can feel throughout your body and sounds that emerge from the interaction between you and others. As you play, images and tones arise that evoke the invisible world of microbes. Just like microbes, which exist in connection with one another and with us,  you and your fellow visitors become part of a greater whole. In doing so, you’ll discover a new way of listening: to each other, and to the smallest forms of life.

About the artist – Christopher Bowen

Christopher Bowen is a sound and performance artist, instrument builder, musician, actor, and film composer. Born in New York and now based in The Hague, he has been creating interactive and immersive group experiences since 1991, including as a core member of the internationally acclaimed and Grammy-nominated Blue Man Group.
His work spans roles as performer, composer, writer, instrument maker, and artistic director. As a film composer, he has written music for the Camera d’Or-winning feature film Jellyfish, the Annie-nominated stop-motion film $9.99, and the documentary Nathan-ism, winner of the Yad Vashem Award at DocAviv 2023.