Hanna Grześkiewicz

Hanna Grześkiewicz is a curator, artist, and researcher working with sound and words. Her practice is centred on the relationship of art with social movements, listening, and sonic fictions. She works in collective, participatory, and public settings, which comes out of her engagement with queer-feminist, migrant, and anti-capitalist movements. She is currently working on projects that explore sonic agency in feminist protests, and Eastern European sonic fictions through queer-feminism and ecology.

She regularly produces work for radio and co-creates the show morning stories on Warsaw’s Radio Kapitał. She is the discourse curator for the IMPULS Festival and member of the SONIC TOMORROW collective, with which she co-curated the festival ‘Situated Ecologies’ at Floating University in Berlin. She was part of transmediale festival’s 2022 research group, and has presented her work at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), CTM Festival (Berlin), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), University of Copenhagen, mdw Wien, and Maastricht University, among others. She has written for a wide range of publications that include the peer-reviewed journal APRJA, Positionen, Glissando, Gramophone Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, and openDemocracy.

SONIC TOMORROW (Hanna Grześkiewicz & Julian Rieken) is a collective of artists, researchers, and activists seeking to query the place and performance of political action and activism within discourses and practices of sonic arts and experimental musics.

Guided by gentle gestures, sensory narratives, and poetic storytelling, the collective centres its practice on collective and participatory listening and sounding experiences that are envisaged as spaces for gathering and reflection. The collective curates experimental discourse formats, leads workshops, produces work for radio, develops sound installations, and dives into artistic research projects. They have presented work at IMPULS Festival, Struer Tracks Biennial, Floating University (Berlin), and at CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies), among others.

They are currently working on Waterways, a project related to desertification and water control in collaboration with Zeren Oruc, Sakiya and MADEYOULOOK, as well as on Topographies of Resistance, a project which thinks through the Białowieża Forest as a fertile soil for speculating on a borderless future.