In a lecture-performance interweaving images, sound and voice, our resident artist Anna will share embodied artistic research happening within artistic residency Missing Meanders. The event is taking place on 29.07 at 16:30 at CO.LABS, Kounicova 20, Brno

Like water flowing through the rocks in Moravian Karst, this project aims to locate cracks between the well established ways of perceiving the river (resource, habitat, infrastructure) – cracks that can create connections, unlikely alliances and potential histories. Bringing together sensory ethnography, experimental video, writing and sound-making, I propose a polyphonic, multi-bodied tale of Svratka river.

Anna Jurkiewicz – born in Warsaw, Poland – is a transdisciplinary artist working with sound, video, writing and voice. She engages in artistic research around more-than-human timelines, architectures and interactions. Some of her projects explore karst landscapes created by water through deep-time processes of dissolution and sedimentation. Most focus on multispecies relations that produce space and habitats. Her artistic practice often comes with the intention of strengthening interspecies empathy. As a sound artist, Jurkiewicz works with field recording, various microphones, voice and found footage to create multi-layered sound collages. As a vocalist, she recycles archives, composes music and explores resonance in various spaces, including an acoustic inventory of caves. In her work, a background in traditional music, ethnography and linguistics is combined with research and a personal practice of listening and cultivating intimate relationships with environments. Half of Graz-based duo Messy Sensing (with Reza Kellner).

The project is carried out as part of Adam Mickiewicz Institute's "ReSide" programme, co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.