Walkthrough of the group show Post-Hearing – Post-Listening with the curator Alexandra Cihanska Machovova for artyčok.tv. The video is available here. Highle reccomended! I was showcasing The Edge of Chaos which also featured live performance with Elia Moretti. <33
https://artycok.tv/cs/embed/c16a5724-2f0b-4205-82d0-75f679de
First we liberate ourselves from an anthropocentrical definition of sound as a vibration, that is hearable by a human ear, and we admit, that each vibration can possibly be heard by someone, or something. Then it doesn’t matter, whether we perceive the world as an energy – will for an action, or as a string, we always find ourselves in the universe of vibrations, the world made of sound.
Sun does not turn around the Earth, the Earth does not turn around the humans, hierarchy is broken up and suddenly everything is equally important. We are looking for the way to go on, out of the catastrophes and traps, into which we got ourselves, we are looking for the true role, position in the ecosystem, if there still is one, the way it was and the way it necessarily changes. We are looking for the ways, how to change our role of humanity as a disease, as a parasite, to a valuable part of the whole, to connect, to integrate, to get in touch, to contact. To listen means an opportunity and possibility to understand, to accept. One must not only listen through the ears.
Sound permeates the matter of our bodies, it interferes with their energy, their vibration, their sound. Waves are intertwined and it’s not possible to distinguish the borders, where one thing ends and the other thing begins, everything mingles, shades into each other. We are part of our surrounding, of our environment, our environment passes through us. Sound and transmedial artists discover in their works way of listening, which are not limited by a human ear. Listening of the communication of animals, plants, interspecies, communication of ecospheres.
The show took place at GAMU in Prague, in September 2024.