Land und Blut

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:50:53 +0000

In collaboration with Anna Sowa (Armenia)

Audio-visual Manifesto, in which sound and animation form a complex interacting structure. In these times of globalization and armed conflicts, which concept of ‘country’ is closest to you? How do you identify with the place where you were born? Do you feel an attachment to the environment in which you grew up? What influence did it have on you? A country is not a territory but, above all, people who, despite all their differences, think alike, share a common history, function and empathize in similar ways. It is, in a direct and symbolic sense, a family bound by blood. It is people who breathe at a similar rhythm and in the same polluted air. People who face an overwhelming reality day after day, living on the run, not knowing where they are going. With a similar physiognomy and physiology, a common DNA that cannot be changed. A piece was a part of the ARTIVISM Project.

Anna Sowa

Anna Sowa is experimental composer and artist, mainly focused on exploring electronic music and fields of performing arts.

Born in 1987 in Limanowa (PL), currently resident in Basel. She graduated from the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz (PL) where she had studied with Zygmunt Krauze. As part of the Erasmus+ Programme she studied composition and visualization with Dietrich Hahne at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (DE) in years 2014-2015. As a Chinese government scholarship recipient she was student at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (CN) in years 2017-2018. In 2021 she graduated with distinction ‘Specialised Master’s in Composition with Caspar Johannes Walter and Johannes Kreidler.

In 2021 she won, together with the association Anomalia, the 3rd edition of the Fringe competition of the Foundatione Haydn Stiftung. As part of the prize, Anna Sowa’s opera Silenzio/Silence was premiered in March 2022 as part of the Festival Oper 2022 in Bolzano.

Anna Sowa, Gohar Sargsyan.Land Und Blue 2

Anna Sowa, Gohar Sargsyan. Land und Blue

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Dzhnhal

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:33:55 +0000

The content of the work performed as part of the Festival of Snow and Ice Sculptures is checked through a word game. This is a video performance, the components of which are snow and earth. A word symbolizing the intensity of loss and pain that befell society and the Armenian people is born on a flat, snow-covered area, like white paper and a new page.

The work “Dzhnhal”, created by ephemeral particles of nature and the language of nature, conveys the allegory of the cycle of time, the warmth of memories and the pain of physical loss.

Miriam Arami_Dzhnhal_2021

Miriam Arami_Dzhnhal_2021_1 (1)

Miriam Arami_Dzhnhal_2021_1

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Land und Blut

Dzhnhal