Moss Room

MOSS ROOM (2026)
work in progress

Moss Room is an immersive audio experience for at least two bodies laying down. 
Moss Room is a speculative meditation.
Moss Room is a somatic fiction. 
Moss Room is an annexation.
Moss Room is an imaginary landscape.
You cannot listen to Moss Room alone. 

DUTCH VERSION
*Please note that this version of Moss Room is in Dutch. It is a work in progress and takes 30 minutes. 
The final English version of Moss Room will follow soon. 

(WITH) WHOM

You cannot listen to Moss Room alone. The intention is that you listen together with at least one other person, although we think the experience gets richer when you listen with more than two people. You can also listen with different groups (of at least two) people at the same time in the same room. Please note that you can leave at any time; in that case, try not to disturb the others.

Are you alone? Look for at least one fellow listener.

WHERE

Moss Room was created by and for people who cannot always easily go to the theatre due to illness, disability or chronic pain. Moss Room can be experienced on the floor of a (living) room, in bed or outside in a field, a forest, a park or any other natural environment where you can lay down calmly with others. Make sure there is enough space for all listeners to lie on the floor/ground together in a star/circle shape, with your heads towards each other. If there are only two listeners, you can also lie next to each other.

TOUCH

This work includes two invitations to touch another person and to be touched by them. Know that you always choose not to touch or be touched. 

HOW

To listen to Moss Room, you need a smartphone with an internet connection and headphones.

Make sure your smartphone is connected to the headphones. Check the volume.

Take off your shoes, take a blanket and/or a pillow. Make yourselves comfortable.

Sit down with your fellow listeners, within reach of each other. Note that the starting position is sitting.

Go to the audiofile and press play at the same time. 

ACCESSIBILITY

If you are listening to Moss Room with one or more wheelchair users, find a collective listening position that accommodates them. If you are listening with one or more people with visual impairments, you may want to position yourselves closer together. Take care of each other and wear a face mask if necessary.

FOR LARGER GROUPS

For group listening sessions: you can also download & print QR-code for people to scan. The code will take you to the audiofile.

CREDITS

Concept & text: Bauke Lievens
Partner in development & text: Tineke De Meyer
Voice: Dolores Bouckaert
Sound design: Linde Carrijn
Recording & mix: Linde Carrijn, Gert Malfliet
Outside ears: Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Louis Vanhaverbeke
Thanks to: Robert Monchen & Meer Meer Residency, Stijn Vermeire, Eva Samyn

CONTEXT

Moss Room is the second installment of Crip Earth (Re)Generation, an artistic research project that seeks to nurture and explore relations of repair at the intersection of artistic practice, disability and our connection to the land. Crip Earth (Re)Generation is an initiative of The Circus Dialogues (continued). Underlying questions of the project are: Is the embodied experience of disability/sickness an epistemological position? If so, what can it tell us about societal repair? How can this embodied knowledge be articulated and shared through different artistic forms? 

Amongst other actions, Crip Earth (Re)Generation has organized Crip Affinity Group, a monthly gathering with artists living with disability, chronic illness/pain at weder, a local community flower farm. During the Crip Affinity Group, we experimented with seasonal agricultural activities (sowing, grafting, pruning). We embroidered a large collective cloth outdoors, ate together, and read crip theory in the flower field. We devised rituals and small practices of repair, shaped by our lived experiences of illness, disability, and/or chronic pain. Over time, Crip Affinity Group became a shared and shareable space of embodied knowledge about the reciprocity and brokenness of (eco)systems, the mutual dependence of humans and landscape, about toxic productivity, and about the shared vulnerability that connects us to one another and to the more-than-human. Moss Room is inspired by this collective experience.