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An ongoing series of projects centered on collective listening.
Listening to and with the environment, these interventions invite participants to attune to environmentally problematic sites such as factories, and contaminated lakes. Through shared acts of listening, the projects explore how sensitivity and connectedness can emerge from sonic engagement — and how listening and sounding together might deepen our relationship with the environment.
Main thread of the project developed in 2023, in collaboration with Celestina Minichova. Our first organised event was called Another failed project. A collective performance exploring the interesections of Art and Activism through performative acts and situated discussion,
we wanted to invite the audience to a landfill in Bratislava, Vrakuňa, at the moment potentially endangering one of the biggest sources
of drinkable water in middle Europe -Žitný ostrov.
Site-specific group performance
Taking place at the Chemical waste dump CHZJD in Bratislava- Vrakuňa district. This location is a hidden place in the capital of Slovakia, where toxic substances are contaminating soil, underground water since 1966. The landfill in Vrakuna Bratislava - containing hazardous waste originating mostly from chemical industry - has been contaminating the soil and groundwater for over 30 years. The title of the performance reflects yet another failed attempt to solve this long-standing problem. Revealing the conditional interdependence between politics and the environment.
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Featuring and developed with:
Viktoria Arvayová, Adam Balogh, Silvia Binda Heiserova, Václav Janoščík, Fero Király, Celestína Minichová,
Kasha Potrohosh, Volodymyr Serhachov, Martin Toldy, Boris Vitázek, Marína Abramovič Po Sebe Neupratuje
You can read more about the project in this article: @mloki.sk (in Slovak)
Photos by Adam Balog, Lujza Reingraber and Lisa Achammer.
Listening to and with the environment, these interventions invite participants to attune to environmentally problematic sites such as factories, and contaminated lakes. Through shared acts of listening, the projects explore how sensitivity and connectedness can emerge from sonic engagement — and how listening and sounding together might deepen our relationship with the environment.
Main thread of the project developed in 2023, in collaboration with Celestina Minichova. Our first organised event was called Another failed project. A collective performance exploring the interesections of Art and Activism through performative acts and situated discussion,
we wanted to invite the audience to a landfill in Bratislava, Vrakuňa, at the moment potentially endangering one of the biggest sources
of drinkable water in middle Europe -Žitný ostrov.
Site-specific group performance
Taking place at the Chemical waste dump CHZJD in Bratislava- Vrakuňa district. This location is a hidden place in the capital of Slovakia, where toxic substances are contaminating soil, underground water since 1966. The landfill in Vrakuna Bratislava - containing hazardous waste originating mostly from chemical industry - has been contaminating the soil and groundwater for over 30 years. The title of the performance reflects yet another failed attempt to solve this long-standing problem. Revealing the conditional interdependence between politics and the environment.
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Featuring and developed with:
Viktoria Arvayová, Adam Balogh, Silvia Binda Heiserova, Václav Janoščík, Fero Király, Celestína Minichová,
Kasha Potrohosh, Volodymyr Serhachov, Martin Toldy, Boris Vitázek, Marína Abramovič Po Sebe Neupratuje
You can read more about the project in this article: @mloki.sk (in Slovak)
Photos by Adam Balog, Lujza Reingraber and Lisa Achammer.
Listening Workshop: That Which Waters the Ground - That Which Sound the Scape(s)
That Which Waters the Ground - That Which Sound the Scape(s) seeks to find possible answers to the question: How can we understand the environment to be able to (under)stand it and (under)stand with it? Through a series of meditative exercises, field recordings, movement, and speculative storytelling.
It is a workshop based on developing ideas about staying with problems. It is a process-oriented, site-dependent workshop that globally networks places, highlighting the relationships and connections between different parts of the world. The workshop aims to bring together participants from various creative backgrounds who are interested in discovering strategies that combine sound and movement in relation to the environment in which we find ourselves. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros and her concepts of deep listening, as well as Donna Haraway and Milan Adamčiak, we will navigatethrough the contexts of Žitný ostrov. Framed by 10 structured meditative exercises, we will listen, compose, and speculate on lyrical and epic stories—becoming aware of each other'spresence.
Letter to the minister
