Transformed into nutrition and habitat for various organisms by the removal of harmful materials and addition of specific plant species and nesting materials, Multispecies Piano invites you to critically reflect on the lifecycle of everyday objects in relation to the livability of our planet.

Anneke ter Schure is a, biologist, a water quality researcher and artist, using biological data, concepts, research methods and techniques, and working with living organisms and materials. Her methodology is closely related to critical making: combining critical thinking with hands-on, material-based creation to explore and reflect on social and technological issues. Her most recent artistic work Multispecies piano is an ongoing project engaging with themes of death, decay and multispecies living, exhibited at Dutch Design Week at the Fashion Tech Farm in Eindhoven. Anneke obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in General Biology at the University of Amsterdam and a PhD at the University of Oslo. Her PhD research was on the use of sedimentary ancient DNA from plants and animals to reconstruct past ecosystems and human plant-use to understand the changes in these interactions over time. Anneke is driven by the question: ‘how can we humans explore, understand, communicate and question our inherent entanglement with the living and non-living that surround us and are part of us?’, and is particularly excited about uncovering the unseen and unheard natural world. She likes to entice people to look differently at the (natural) world and aims to make the world slightly better, prettier, and/or more sustainable.