- Situated Ecologies Festival
- Listening Forward Symposium
- Topographies of Resistance Artistic Research, Installation
- Waterways Artistic Research
- Arid Futures Artistic Research
Morning Stories
RadioSounds of Solidarity Radio, Artistic Research
Hate Loops Installation
About
TOPOGRAPHIES OF RESISTANCE is an ongoing research project which thinks through the Białowieża Forest as a fertile soil for speculating on a borderless future.
The project moves through different forms, which include a sound installation, listening sessions (słuchowisko), radio works, lecture performances, presentations, and research papers.
1. Wounds heal in the green of newborn life
This immersive sound installation explores the Białowieża Forest as a complex ecosystem under threat. By tracing the sonic shadows of the forest’s past and present, the work weaves together layered narratives of border fluidities and more-than-human solidarities as ground for offering speculative imaginaries of a borderless future.
A multi-channel sound installation combining field recordings, songs, news clips, an interview with a Kurdish person on the move read by researcher Bariş Öktem, and researcher Olga Cielemęcka reading from her text ‘The Grammar of Belonging’.
The installation premiered at the Sanatorium of Sound Festival in August 2024.
2. Słuchowisko (literally ‘a place for/of listening’)
Resonating with the Polish word for ‘bonfire’ (‘ognisko - a place of/for fire’), the live format is a participatory listening experience in which the listeners become part of the work and the sound piece becomes the bonfire at the centre of the gathering. Combining field recordings, storytelling, speculative narratives, research, and music, this sound work reflects on the existing border fluidity of the Podlasie region (the region on the Polish side of the Białowieża Forest), developing images and imaginaries of a borderless future.
