{"id":3456,"date":"2025-02-20T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuvataidetalo.fi\/koe\/almanach-echoes\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:52:30","slug":"almanach-echoes","status":"publish","type":"experience","link":"https:\/\/kuvataidetalo.fi\/en\/experience\/almanach-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanach (Echoes)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div  class=\"ktt-rich-text mt-0 bg-body text-body\" data-bs-theme=dark>\n\t<div class=\"container-xxl\">\n\t\t<div class=\"ktt-narrow\">\n\t\t\t<h2>About the exhibition<\/h2>\n<p>Almanach (Echoes) is a collaboration between visual artist and filmmaker Monika Czy\u017cyk and composer Neil Luck, bringing together musicians who transform natural materials into sound. The cast features Boris M\u00fcller, a German percussionist crafting instruments from stone, shell, and organic materials; Carlos Guti\u00e9rrez Quiroga, a Bolivian composer inspired by traditional clay and wooden instruments; and J\u00fcrgen Essl, an acclaimed improvising pipe organist. <\/p>\n<p>A hybrid mix of docu-fiction, music video, and experimental performance, the film interweaves staged and impromptu encounters across multiple landscapes. These musicians become nodes between traditions, histories, craft practices, and nations, connecting through the elemental forces of stone, wood, air, bamboo, shell, and clay. Their performances unfold like a hypnotic, shamanic dance, where bodies, landscapes, and sound resonate in ever-expanding echoes.  <\/p>\n<p>Shot across Germany, the UK, Finland, and Sweden in 2023\u20132024, the film employs a variety of formats\u20144K digital, 8mm, 360-degree video, 3D lidar scans, and digital animation\u2014blurring the line between the tangible and the digital. Similarly, its sonic world merges documentary, field recordings, voice messages, sampled dance music, foley, and electronic soundscapes, creating a fluid interplay between organic and synthetic sound. <\/p>\n<p>More than a film, Almanach exists as a living, evolving body of work\u2014leading to live performances in galleries, music festivals, and studios, where musicians, filmmakers, and collaborators bring its themes into real-time expression.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, Almanach (Echoes) explores how human technologies\u2014ancient and modern\u2014collide, resonate, and create new ways of experiencing sound, space, and presence. It is an attempt to manifest joy, connection, and transformation beyond language. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div  class=\"ktt-media-and-text mt-0 text-body bg-body ktt-media-and-text--manual\" data-bs-theme=light>\n\t\t<div class=\"container-xxl\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center g-md-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ktt-media-and-text__media-container col-12 col-md-6 order-last order-md-first\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ktt-media-and-text__text-container col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ktt-media-and-text__title \">Monika Czy\u017cyk<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ktt-media-and-text__description\"><p>Monika Czy\u017cyk is a Polish visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She works with dirty media: moving images, VR and clay within the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects. Monika collects clay from a variety of places and uses it to create spiritually driven clay window paintings. Her working methodology is divided into travel-led and site-specific research and studio practices based on Vartiosaari Island in Helsinki, where she is part of the Vartiosaari Island association. She considers the island as an active partner and collaborator in all her projects. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals including Malm\u00f6 Konstmuseum, Sequences biennial, Reykjavik, Sinne gallery, Helsinki, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, and Floating University, Berlin.     <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/kuvataidetalo.fi\/ihmiset\/monika-czyzyk\/\" target=\"\">More about the artist<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div  class=\"ktt-media-and-text mt-0 text-body bg-body ktt-media-and-text--manual\" data-bs-theme=dark>\n\t\t<div class=\"container-xxl\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center g-md-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ktt-media-and-text__media-container col-12 col-md-6 order-first order-md-last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ktt-media-and-text__text-container col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"ktt-media-and-text__title \">Visit the exhibition<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/kuvataidetalo.fi\/toimijat\/haa-galleria\/\" target=\"\">Explore the gallery<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3452,"template":"","experience_cat":[163],"experience_location":[152],"experience_target_group":[162],"class_list":["post-3456","experience","type-experience","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","experience_cat-exhibition","experience_location-helsinki-en","experience_target_group-for-everyone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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