Introduction snippet from the audio work 'Calling from the Periphery' (2019) by Yeb Wiersma. Part of the Charlotte Posenenske exhibition 'Lexicon of Infinite Movement' curated by Suzanne Wallinga and Eloise Sweetman at the Kröller Müller Museum, NL, 2019

As a response to the sculptural works and personal writings of Charlotte Posenenske, and the artist’s desire to operate at the critical ‘edge’ of things, Yeb Wiersma created the soundscape Calling from the Periphery (2019), which is installed in the museum’s foyer. Within this audio work, Wiersma asks—what are we saying when we speak about the ‘centre’ or the ‘periphery’? What if the centre is nowhere and its features are dispersed? Taking Posenenske’s Square Tubes as her point of departure, Wiersma created a score around the themes of loss, frustration, hope, the traps and beauty of Art and Modernity, and the conditions that influence our lives today. 

Drawn to the transportation networks in which, according to Charlotte Posenenske, the ‘social’ manifests itself, we follow Wiersma on her field trips in public spaces—starting from the art museum and moving from traffic junctions to metro stations and airports. Asking herself what conversations and sounds echoed through Posenenske’s Square Tubes when they were installed in various public spaces, Wiersma shares how the  up-tempo acoustics of everyday city life shape our human experiences and emotions within the urban fabric of today’s world.