Time Tripping by Philip Lüschen

The site-specific video installation Time Tripping reveals synchronicities on the Katoenhuis grounds, spanning from the distant past to the far future. Through visual-spatial cues and 3D simulations of the site’s architecture, it presents the site in multiple times at once, merging these layers into new, shifting realities. Across these temporal layers, choreographies of elevation unfold: bodies carried by ascending currents of uplifting dance music, crates hoisted skyward, elk leaping, and water rising, highlighting continuities that resonate through time.

Time Tripping was originally created under the frame of OMI Rotterdam  Dag & Nacht van de Architectuur and now returns for Open Monumentendag 2025 at the KATOENHUIS.

About the artist

Philip Lüschen is a visual artist and scenographer working at the intersection of architecture and theatre. His practice engages with the built environment through scenographic strategies, exploring the latent potential of urban space, the role of fiction in everyday life, and the performativity of both controlled and uncontrolled environments.

Using 3D simulations, scale models, and set design, he examines the constructed nature of human-made environments and their potential to be reimagined as liminal spaces. Emerging from a dialogue with specific environments, Lüschen’s work manifests as site-specific performances, video installations, writing, and film.