Ongoing project
Currently the topic of a window show running in September and October 2025 at Stichting la Jetée, Amsterdam, curated by Stichting la Jetée: Ester Eva Damen.
Exhibited October 2024 and October 2023 at the Fashion Tech Farm during Dutch Design Week, curated by Toren van Babel: Iris Bekkers and Shams Hazim.
Transformed into nutrition and habitat for various organisms by the removal of harmful materials and addition of specific plant species and nesting materials, Multispecies Piano invites you to critically reflect on the lifecycle of everyday objects in relation to the livability of our planet.
“Multispecies piano engages with themes of death, decay and multispecies living. Central to this work is an old piano, once designed for making music but no longer up to our musical standards. It’s transformed into a basis of new life: as nutrition and habitat for various organisms. Through a number of modifications, including the removal of harmful materials and the addition of specific plant species and nesting materials, an interplay is created between the dead material of the piano and the living micro-organisms, plants and animals that use it and become part of it.
Multispecies piano is created by Anneke ter Schure, and shaped by the reuse of materials at hand, her background in Biology, and the question: how can we move away from a focus on production and shift towards a focus on habitability and livability for other-than-humans?”
Photo’s by Iris Bekkers and Anneke ter Schure
Timelapse
Multispecies piano has been in created in October 2023 and was exhibited as part of Dutch Design Week in 2023 and 2024. Changes in Multispecies Piano were recorded using a timelapse camera, taking a photo every hour. Below is a video of one year condensed in less than 3 minutes.