Installation artist

SPIF

Live electronic rituals
Immersive performance installations

Installations that resonate, moving people to grow.

Modular synthesizers Science experiments Tesla coils TouchDesigner Hypnosis Machine elves
Amsterdam · NL · 52°22′N 4°53′E
Spif — illustrated poster: lone figure in long coat and top hat under branching white arcs, vintage television in the dirt, dusk sky PLATE I
Spif

An artist of
resonant systems.

Spif portrait — silver chrome jacket, futurist goggles with prismatic lenses, spiked hair, telephone-rotary necklace, smoky studio backdrop PLATE II
Spif Portrait, MMXXVI

Spif builds instruments to slow people down and lead them somewhere they did not expect to go — across modular performance, spoken-word ritual, AI installation, and tactile interactive objects.

The vocabulary is vintage hardware and electric ritual: bakelite cabinetry, brass-trimmed cockpit television, eurorack patch cables, two-way mirror, warm signal lamps. The intention is closer to ceremony than to spectacle — a museum bookshop's hush, with a Tesla coil quietly waiting in the wings.

Based in Amsterdam, working toward a permanent multidisciplinary space — Diepgang (Dutch for depth) — that holds the performances, the installations, and the workshops in one room.

Based
Amsterdam, NL
Practice
Performance · installation · sound
In progress
Diepgang — permanent venue
Available for
Residency · commission · curation
Spif at a shared Amsterdam workshop, panoramic — wearing a top hat, working at a CNC machine, doubled by the panorama stitch artifact PLATE II
Workshop Building Vox Arboris parts on the CNC. The panoramic stitch shows me twice — present + future, in the same frame.
№ 05

Vox Arboris

2023 →
ongoing
Live · A'dam TowerAmsterdam — April 2026 Live · OdonienCologne, DE Installation · WIHH GalleryAmsterdam — Summer 2023, one-month residency FormModular performance + gallery installation

Vox Arboris began as a one-month installation residency at WIHH Gallery in 2023 — a slow, branching modular score that the room learned by heart — and has since travelled: a live set at Odonien in Cologne, and high above the IJ at the A'dam Tower in April 2026. The piece treats the modular rig like a tree: signals enter the roots, take their time, and only certain frequencies make it to the canopy.

Vox Arboris installation at WIHH gallery, Summer 2023 PLATE V·a
Vox Arboris — WIHH, 2023 Installation residency, gallery interior
Vox Arboris live performance at A'dam Tower, April 2026 PLATE V·b
Vox Arboris — A'dam Tower, 2026 Live set, IJ skyline behind the rig
Vox Arboris stage at A'dam Tower — modular rig and white branching tree sculpture, sunset behind PLATE V·c
Vox Arboris — stage, A'dam Tower, 2026 The Arboris sculpture, modular rig, sunset over the IJ
PLATE V·d
Vox Arboris — live, A'dam Tower, 2026 From the floor, mid-set
№ 06

Meditation Station

2025
FormTactile meditation installation Vessel1950s bakelite television InternalsRaspberry Pi · dual rotary encoders · custom UI

A 1950s bakelite television, gutted and rewired with a quiet new heart. Two rotary encoders sit where the tuning and volume used to live; a Raspberry Pi runs a custom interface behind the glass. Pull the cord, find your resonance.

Meditation Station — bakelite television on top of patched modular synthesizer PLATE VI
Meditation Station Bakelite TV atop the modular rig
№ 07

Mayor Manor — performance residency

2022
November
VenueTen Club · theatre venue · Amsterdam DurationOne month RolesMC · performance · sound design

A month-long residency at Ten Club's theatre venue: a full evening-length show alongside continuous contributions to the wider theatre programme — MC duties, ensemble performance, and sound design across other works in the run.

Mayor Manor stage — green and blue lights, white branching sculpture, modular rig, video screen with projection, mirrorball PLATE VII
Mayor Manor — Ten Club, November 2022 Stage at the residency, mid-set
№ 08

Tardis

2017
VenueThe Next Web Conference · Amsterdam FormParticipatory psychological installation · 20 min TeamFive collaborators · hired actors

A 20-minute participatory installation. The participant travels five years into the future and meets the version of themselves that has already accomplished what they came to do. Built by a five-person team and performed with hired actors. The conceptual prototype for Vox Futuri.

Spif at the Tardis — top hat with monocle, long grey wool coat, beaded necklaces, holding a wooden tool, Tardis police box behind PLATE VIII·a
Tardis — TNW, 2017 Spif as the Time Lord
The TARDIS — life-sized blue police box recreation in a brick-vaulted hall, red lighting overhead, signage reading 'PR.CO PUBLIC BOX' and 'POLICE TELEPHONE FREE FOR USE OF PUBLIC' PLATE VIII·b
Tardis — TNW, 2017 The chamber, exterior
№ 09

Cubic Reset Unscramble Your Life

2015
VenueBrave Festival (~5000 attendees) · Tuinen van West · Amsterdam Scale3 × 3 metres StateLit from within at night

A three-metre interactive Rubik's cube installed in the gardens of Tuinen van West, Amsterdam — one corner deliberately skewed. Visitors stepped inside, chose a single topic to change in their life (finances, a relationship, a worry), and were led through a breathing exercise to release it. Press the RESET button to open the WINDOW to the rest of your life.

Cubic Reset cube installation, Brave Festival 2015, daytime PLATE IX·a
Cubic Reset — Brave Festival, 2015 Daytime, three-metre scale
Cubic Reset cube installation, Brave Festival 2015, nighttime PLATE IX·b
Cubic Reset — Brave Festival, 2015 Night, lit from within
LIFE RESET — interior projection text from the Cubic Reset cube PLATE IX·c
Cubic Reset — interior projection "A moment to reflect has occurred"
Inside the Cubic Reset cube — confetti and torn papers on the floor under blacklight PLATE IX·d
Cubic Reset — interior Floor: torn papers under blacklight
№ 10

Find Your Inner Unicorn

2014
VenueBrave Festival · Tuinen van West · Amsterdam FormInteractive installation NoteFirst public work

An interactive installation. A small ritual disguised as a game — visitors entered alone and left holding something they didn't know they were looking for. The earliest public seed of the practice that would become Spif.

Find Your Inner Unicorn caravan installation, Brave Festival 2014 — caravan with painted aztec pattern and unicorn banner on top PLATE X
Find Your Inner Unicorn — Brave Festival, 2014 The hand-painted caravan with Spif as host
№ 11 — Contact · Amsterdam · MMXXVI

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@elspif