Stan Wiersmabiography
Stan Wiersma (b. 1996, Groningen, NL) is a sound artist based in Amsterdam. Being hard-of-hearing, he explores the act of mediated listening through performance, improvisation, and broadcasting. With a background in image and media technology, Stan’s practice spans live group performance, site-specific sound works, programming, and experimental forms of publishing.
He is the founder and curator of not@home, an online media archive for freeform radio, and a performer in various collaborative constellations including my imaginary friends (of which I have many) and the music project spullen. Recent performances and presentations include Paradiso, De Melkweg, Tale of A Tub, Kunstpodium T, Garage Noord, and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Design at the Sandberg Institute, Stan investigates themes of mourning, and listening as a collective, spatial, and embodied practice.
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Bandcampmy imaginary friends (of which I have many) is a project initiated by Chryso Amaya Michailidis and Stan Wiersma, a series of durational performances and a project in fluxus that are based on improvisation, repetition, transients, resting. Amplifying bodies of sound, listen to the bones in my fingers crack.
As we lay down/ If I fall asleep, i’ll miss… without guilt/ as our presence/ while I move in and out of focus, the sound persists.
Performances25/09/2025 — Phantom Stones Hold Mountains Alive, Group Performance and Video Installation @ Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
23/05/2025 - corecore Noise Reading Group, Listening Session @ Het Nieuwe Instituut
15/05/2025 — Xraygaze, Sound Piece and Performance @ Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
29/03/2025 — Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam
21/01/2025 — Hard Boiled Risks, Group Performance @ Piet Zwart Institue, Rotterdam
20/06/2024 — we haven’t yet talked about my imaginary friends (of which I have many), Durational Group Performance @ Suburbia, Garage Noord, Amsterdam