Touki Delphine

Touki Delphine

Bo Koek, Rik Elstgeest, John van Oostrum & Chris Doyle are Touki Delphine; an artist collective of musicians, performers and visual artists. The members draw from their eclectic backgrounds to create stimulating visual works and modern music performances.

In Touki Delphine’s multidimensional works they pull from classic and modern music from all corners of the globe, combine reinterpretations with original compositions and new visual concepts crossing and blurring disciplinary boundaries. Committed and resourceful. Serious and playful. An open question or visual stimulant can form a point of departure. Their methods result in a unique, dynamic cross-pollination of the arts.

Inspired by the climate crisis and the insights of Alexander von Humboldt that nature is a living whole, not a dysfunctional mass: that stones, plants, animals and people are all permeated by creative force, Touki Delphine pursues a restoration of balance between nature and modern humans. With all of our technological advancements, humans have significantly disrupted nature over the past two centuries. There is no going back. But maybe there’s a way forward. Not by deeming technology the leading culprit, but by achieving a new harmony with the help of that technology.

Using recycled materials, technological inventions and new or adapted compositions, Touki Delphine creates installations that explore these themes and the relationship between nature, humans and technology.