Relief
Jul 19, 12:41 PM
"The audio piece is the way I listen to language that is foreign to me following the notion, that all that is unknow becomes a noise that we try to push away. When I arrived in Germany from Poland I would only hear the melody of speaking not understanding it felt overwhelming, and then remembering a scrap of word that would become an earworm lingering in me.
"While listening to the field recording I could only perceive sense of constant fluctuation and movement in swarm of voices, sounding out of objects and animals, with voices of megaphone over it. I followed the dramaturgy of recording and the way a microphone moved though spaces and focused on state of feeling out of place and in constant need of movement while being drowning in sea of objects.
"Relief both connects to a mode of sculpture characterized by surface inequalities and forms of help that is lacking in the treatment of migrating bodies."
Tunis old town reimagined by Justyna Stasiowska.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
"While listening to the field recording I could only perceive sense of constant fluctuation and movement in swarm of voices, sounding out of objects and animals, with voices of megaphone over it. I followed the dramaturgy of recording and the way a microphone moved though spaces and focused on state of feeling out of place and in constant need of movement while being drowning in sea of objects.
"Relief both connects to a mode of sculpture characterized by surface inequalities and forms of help that is lacking in the treatment of migrating bodies."
Tunis old town reimagined by Justyna Stasiowska.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration