In a lecture-performance interweaving images, sound and voice, our resident artist Anna will share embodied artistic research happening within artistic residency Missing Meanders.

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).