In 2019 I collaborated with Mozambican artist Michelle Cook to think about artistic representations of urban energy landscapes. After some discussions, Michelle created an immersive installation focusing on my work on cooking in Mozambique. The installation included the demarcation of physical space, a soundscape and a series of cooking objects.

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Michelle described her work as follows:

The installation uses sound to evoke the domestic space in Maputo. It responds directly to the concept of landscape as an arrangement of objects and the soundscape as an an acoustic environment that is situated and culturally-specific. The characterization of the urban energy landscape as "connective tissue" shows how energy becomes so embedded in ordinary existence that its usage is imperceptible and ritualized. This installation also explores the notion of sound as part of the connective tissue that emerges from (as it also permeates) human movement within the urban environment. 

Sounds evoke a culturally-specific spectrum of meanings and interpretations. However, they are perceived through the body, so they are immediate, elusive and ephemeral. Listening is a cultural activity which generates a heard object just as it discovers it. The act of listening is selective and critical: it differentiates between sound and noise, then identifies rhythms that gradually bring sounds into a familiar acoustic space. Rhythm is an articulation of time and a grouping relationship that relies upon our perception or anticipation of pattern or recurrence.

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This installation combines the sounds of four artefacts, including a cookstove. The selection of three other cooking implements emphasizes how 'quotidian acts of energy provision and use also play a key role in reproducing energy landscapes through interactions with a wide range of energy artefacts'. The soundtrack explores the transformation of noise into sound, and toys with the impact of rhythm on familiarity. The gradual introduction of sounds seeks to produce doubt, which it later resolved by associating the heard object with its material counterpart within a familiar pattern of domestic use.