2022
film
duration:
21:31
in
collaboration with Raffia Li, Iga Świeściak, Dorota
Tučková, Mariana Hradiková
and
Rebeka Maxová
The artist’s new multi-chapter work
merges polyphonic songs with poetry and theory through
a collaboration with artists, dancers, performers and
musicians. It presents the womb as a site of polyphony
and constant sound resonance, investigating the
political dimensions of listening in order to overcome
the hierarchies between what we perceive as a message
and noise. It further interweaves the stories of fluid
bodies – the body of a dead river, standing for the
dying ecosystems, and the female, trans and queer body
subjected to exploitation by capitalism and
reproductive control by the heteronormative,
particularly ultra-Christian, patriarchy. Conceived as
a song for the human animal and more-than-human
species, signing and sighing is pouring out as a
liquid from an open wound, and as an exhalation in the
process of learning through listening.
text
by Rado Ištok
