SONIC TOMORROW
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.
Multi-channel sound installation
With the passage of time, the wounds heal and are covered with the greenery of newborn life. Simona Kossak, Saga Puszczy Białowieskiej
The Białowieża Forest, arbitrarily crossed by the border between Poland and Belarus, is a lifesource for a multitude of living beings. Many are only able to survive within the forest’s embrace. Bison, lynxes, wolves, and countless trees, fungi, and other organisms are entangled in its ancient and regenerating natural rhythms.
The forest is reluctant to accept visitors, but at the same time gives them shelter. Belarussian minorities hid in the forest’s depths during the time of bieżenstwo (exile). Local Jewish populations found refuge in its ecosystem during the Nazi occupation. Now people on the move are crossing its swampy terrains in search of safety.
Combining field recordings and storytelling, 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.
Multi-channel sound installation With the passage of time, the wounds heal and are covered with the greenery of newborn life. Simona Kossak, Saga Puszczy Białowieskiej The Białowieża Forest, arbitrarily crossed...