Exhibitions:
Dance, Dance, Absolution (2022)
audiovisual installation / re-imagining of a Dance, Dance, Revolution arcade machine
February 2023, The New Current, Brutus, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
December 2022, Club No Man’s Land, Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
September 2022, Gaudeamus Festival, Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands / Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, IJzerblok, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
refract me, deflect you (2021)
audiovisual installation / second iteration of the previous installation by the same name
September 2021, Gaudeamus Festival, Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
refract me, deflect you (2020)
digital installation / nine channel audiovisual installation combining cgi, spoken word and generative music
September 2020, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria / Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
untitled in chrome 01 (2019)
audiovisual work / short film playing with the idea of audiovisual abstract expressionism
June 2022, Zenevloed x Vaagner, OCCI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
February 2020, SWITCH / IFFR, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
an impression of what it is like to float through clouds of broken glass - the splinters never piercing your skin (2019)
audiovisual installation using 5 speakers and 5 cameras
November 2019, SOLU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
music for darkrooms (2019)
sound-installation / eight hours of ambient music for Radiant Love’s darkroom
April 2019, Radiant Love, Berlin, Germany
Released Music:
he could not dance to anything / 10,000 gushes (2022)
album / stereo versions of collision - for andriana and by a thousand cuts. including remixes by Exploited Body, Casimir, and Áslaug Magnúsdóttir. mastered by Lawrence English
September 2022, self-released
collision - for andriana (2021)
chamber music / piece for violin, piano and electronics.
September 2021, cassette released via Vaagner, Berlin
Phase In (Remixes) (2021)
remix of winterdagen’s piece “Twee”
September 2021, digital release by Winterdagen
fall/winter 19’20 (2020)
album / compilation of fragments taken from previously made work. mastered by Lawrence English
February 2020, cassette released via Vaagner, Berlin
Concerts / Performances:
Ruben Kotkamp + Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
live electro-acoustic music performance / presenting the outcome of a 1-week residency at WORM Sound Studios
May 2024, Sounding Here, WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ruben Kotkamp + Lucija Gregov + Christine Cornwell
live electro-acoustic music performance / exploring free improvisation with acoustic instruments in an harsh noise/ambient context
April 2024, Batavierhuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
10,000 gushes (2023 revisit)
electronic music / multi-channel composition following ambisonic and spectro-morphological principles
September 2023, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Ruben Kotkamp
live electro-acoustic music performance
May 2023, MidField, Montreal, Canada
by a thousand cuts (2019)
electronic music / eight channel composition following ambisonic and spectro-morphological principles
February 2020, Finlandia Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
i love you baby, but face it she’s madonna (2019)
chamber music / spatial composition for twentyeight celli, eight trombones and pre-recorded audio
April 2019, Codarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dance / Theatre:
R3LN4CHT III (2024)
sound scenography / spatial sound design and scenography for a performative installation by R3LN4CHT
September 2024, Museumnacht, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
October 2024, Pornceptual, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
December 2024, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spectra (2024)
music for dance / music for a piece for three dancers choreographed by Reiko Ohta
June 2024, Citrusveiling, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gravity / I’m Floating (2023)
music for dance and acousmonium / in collaboration with Butoh dancer Miyuki Lima
November 2023, En Chair et en Son, Paris, France
and even the sun was violent for her (2019)
music for dance / music for a piece for three dancers choreographed by Charles Antoni
June 2019, Codarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
20 minutes of silence (or the esoteric abortion of the aesthetic person) (2018)
music for dance / collaboration with ten dancers and three artists
September 2018, Codarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Residencies:
WORM Sound Studios
Together with Áslaug Magnúsdóttir / working on an album and live electro-acoustic music performance
May 2024, WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Grants:
Regeling Experiment - Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (2024)
For research on proxy-choreography
Culture Moves Europe - Goethe Institute and the European Union (2024)
For research on proxy-choreography
Projectsubsidie - Gemeente Rotterdam (2022)
For the production of Dance, Dance, Absolution
Werkbijdrage - Fonds Podiumkunsten (2022)
For the production of Dance, Dance, Absolution
Teaching / Lecturing:
Lecture on Dance, Dance, Absolution as a test-case on how to conceptualize, produce, and fund large scale works
June 2023, Codarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lecture on spatial audio and ambisonics
June 2021, Codarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Private teaching and coaching
September 2021/present, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Miscellaneous:
Where do you really come from?
hologram animation for a work by Lili Ulrich
April 2024, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Against boredom: Delirious is Beautiful
contribution for a wearable publication edited by XEROXED
June 2023, Primo Moroni Archive, Milan, Italy / Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Worlds between Words; an exhibition curated by Ratri Notosudirdjo
spatial speaker design for an artwork by Ada Maricia Patterson
November 2021, Worlds between Words, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands