Lullaby for Floods

The Lullaby for Floods installation was the creation of a sonic environment and an in-between space connecting us to the Earthly turbulences in the new climate regime: it exchanged our inner floods with external droughts, and we escaped our inner droughts to swallow into external floods. The dance of the water particles ran as we were spectators of present ruins/future ghosts and composers of present ghosts/future ruins.

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Lullaby for Floods was a live sonic composition and a performative installation. The lullaby embeds data from disruptive floods happened between 2024 and 2025, live weather data (the cloud scanning from weather satellite data) at the moment of the live performance, and field recordings of flooded places before and after the flood.

Bodies act like turbulences inside the nebulization. Humans were invited to move into the space during the composition, since rain falls regardless. The work aims to be a lullaby co-composition between humans and water, between the turbulences and flows characterizing our time, where after the floods, crickets and pollinators come back .

The installation took place at the Sluisdeurenloods at Mediamatic within Aquatope 25-26. 

About the artist

Letizia Artioli is an architect and researcher working on data turbulences, flooding voids and weathering spaces. She is MArtScience at KABK (NL) and PhD candidate at IUAV University (IT). She finds inspiration from her research on voids, ephemeral matters and liquid data in a non-extractive perspective and works on topics such as Data Turbulences, Flooding Voids, and Weathering Spaces.