Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam

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2026

Audio installation

Tetterode, a former type foundry

Amsterdam


LISTEN 6:00


I worked with the acoustic conditions of a

former type foundry, where largely empty

corridors in an extracted, functionally

suspended space generate spatial and

sonic tensions.


I treated the building as an active sys-

tem, engaging its material and infrastruc-

tural elements as carriers of residual spa-

tial information and as a site of layered

temporalities and sonic hauntology.


To activate these conditions, I construct-

ed a situation in which the building

becomes an instrument: speakers were

hidden within architectural elements,

playing fragmented punctuation from

the Libra typeface, originally produced in

the building’s former type foundry before

its closure and dismantling.