Veillée
stay-up-late evening
M4 residency
Former Type Foundry, Tetterode
Amsterdam
2026
A screen showing narratives from the inhabited type foundry, its transformations, unrealised futures, and the lingering stories of its residents. By stepping onto the Ouija board, a narrative prompt is triggered.
Recast typefaces, sleeve, furniture and architecture parts flash in and out through flickering lights, intermittently veiled by rising steam in the cold industrial space, delivering a synchronised performance.
Around the central chimney, smoke and sound circulate as a transitional axis between inside and outside, past and present. Framed as a speculative “ghostly smart system,” the work imagines an AI of 1902 in which early industrial machinery and contemporary sensing technologies intra-act. Veillée reactivates the tradition of evening listening as a site-responsive ritual.