Femke Dekker is a Professional Practice tutor at the BA department of Fine Arts and Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at the KABK.
Femke Dekker is a sound practitioner and educator whose multifaceted practice explores sound as a catalyst for creation. Known by her artist moniker Loma Doom, her signature style revolves around electronic experimentalism, both for mind and movement, seeking the outliers, one that avoids linearity, towards a space where intuition and understanding meet.
The core of Dekker’s practice – both as an artist and educator – is rooted in listening. Across lecture halls, archives, festivals, art galleries, independent radio stations, and dance floors, she orbits two central questions: What if listening itself were an artistic practice? What might unfold when listening becomes method, medium, and material?
In the past years, Dekker has published Listening as Research Method for Art and Design, alongside a small exhibition and a performance with Salomé Voegelin at ReWire. She also collaborated with the art collective Werker on De Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt, addressing the international housing crisis, which included essays by Nur Horsanalı. Additionally, she participated in group exhibitions such as New Mother Sculptures at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen and the duo show Open Field at Nest with artist Elsmarijn Bruys. And performed at influential spots such as Salon Des Amateurs, Meakusma, and Cafe Oto, amongst many others. Her recent publication Open Field Listening Station was published as a collaboration between Page Not Found – an artist-run platform dedicated to publishing and experimental practices – and the record label Osàre! Editions.
She holds radio residencies at Stranded FM (with her show Daydream Nation) and Echobox (with Left of the Dial), and has broadcasted on NTS, Lyl Radio, Kiosk, Radio AlHara and Mutant Radio to name but a few. As a contemporary arts educator, Dekker has taught at institutions such as Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, Design Academy Eindhoven, and Minerva in Groningen. She is also an artistic research fellow for the Visual Methodologies Collective, based in Amsterdam.
soundcloud: lomadoom
Instagram: @loma_doom