Rooted Connections with artist-in-resident Yolanda Uriz

🗓️ Thursday, 26 June 2025 |  20:00 – 22:00
📍 Instituto Cervantes Utrecht, Domplein 3, 3512 JC Utrecht

Instituto Cervantes Utrecht and Creative Coding Utrecht (CCU) are pleased to invite you to a special evening with Spanish artist Yolanda Uriz Elizalde, organised as part of the Zoöp Connections programme, in collaboration with EUNIC Netherlands (European Union National Institutes for Culture).

Zoöp (short for Zoöperation) is a working method that seeks collaboration between human and non-human life. It offers a framework where the interests of all living beings are taken into account in organisational decision-making.

This gathering focuses on the artistic exploration of plant-human relationships and plant communications. Join us in a multi-sensory evening of conversation with this incredible line-up specialized in interspecies awareness:

Theun Karelse (interdisciplinary artist, Speaker for the Living at Zoöp Creative Coding Utrecht). Yolanda Uriz (current artist-in-residence at CCU and Instituto Cervantes, supported by EUNIC), Sunjoo Lee (artist-in-residence at Creative Coding Utrecht), Laura Rodríguez (artist specialised in biotechnology and Kurina Sohn (multidisciplinary designer). 

About the artist:
Yolanda Uriz (Pamplona, Spain, 1982) studied at the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Her practice merges science and art through sensory perception, with a strong interest in sound, light, smell, and touch. She is known for creating immersive multi-sensory installations and performances that explore synesthetic links—such as between sound and scent.

Her 2024 work “Chemical Calls of Care” investigates how plants communicate using scent and sound, inviting us to imagine a future world where respectful, equal communication with non-human life is not just possible but essential.

Yolanda’s work has been presented at Sonic Acts (NL), WRO Media-Art Biennale (PL), Kontraste (AU), STRP (NL), SPARK (USA), Todays Art (NL), ISEA (ES), Ars Electronica (AU), among many others. She is a founding member of the artist-run platform iii, supporting radical interdisciplinary practices in art and technology.