Trans[m]it is a collaboration in development between The Foundation for Visual Culture CHMURA and the Soundcamp cooperative, in association with Natalia Revko (Slushni Rechi, UKR), based on common interests in sound as a way to explore experiences of social and environmental change.
Study visits, workshops and a residency will develop transmission ecologies to make links between diaspora groups in the UK, Poland and Ukraine. By listening back and forth between locations, we aim to chart dissonances, differences, and common ground across experiences and zones of displacement.
Project is supported by British Council and realised as part of the preparations for the UK/Poland Season 2025
***
The CHMURA is dedicated to the study and presentation of the polish as well as international art scene along with documents of social life, with particular emphasis on the decade of the 1990s. CHMURA creates an art and research program, initiates exhibitions, meetings and workshops, and promotes the art publishing movement. Above all, CHMURA values intellectual and artistic exchange.
CHMURA (Gdansk, PL) is primarily a visual arts organisation who have recently been using sound art for research and documentation of site and place based explorations. This direction will be supported by Soundcamp’s practice with participatory tech, live sound and transmission arts.
Trans[m]it project curators: Aleksandra Grzonkowska & Monika Popow
***
Soundcamp are an arts cooperative based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in South London. Our work appears as broadcasts, workshops, publications, sound devices and events. As part of the Acoustic Commons network, we coordinate the long-form radio broadcast Reveil (2014 –), and a series of sound and ecology events (soundcamps) on Dawn Chorus Day each year. Recent projects include: Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group – a transmission project between rivers in London and Berlin (2023); l a g – a residency with Kate Donovan for Sonic Acts’ Inner ear(th) programme (2022); As if radio..(AIR): An experiment in ecological activist radio at COP26 Glasgow (2021); Design, concept, network for Acoustic Commons (Creative Europe 2020-2022).
Our work has been supported by Arts Council England, Southwark Local Authority, North Southwark Environment Trust, the British Council, the Creative Europe Programme of the EU and individual supporters.
***
Natalia Revko is an independent curator and contemporary art scholar. As head of the NGO Slushni Rechi, Natalia organized a range of educational projects and exhibitions, including a sound laboratory in the Odesa Botanical garden and a study of private experiences and recollections of artists who grew up in the 1990s. The most recent projects are I can only talk about war / I can not only talk about war at the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia (Gdansk, Poland), and a collaboration with Kandis Friesen in Her right year is shorter than the left at Galerie im Turm (Berlin, Germany). Natalia graduated from the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2016. She worked as an archivist at the Museum of Odesa Modern Art, where she focused on studying art communities and artistic practices of the 1980s and 1990s.
During visiting sessions in the scope of Trans[m]it Natalia is planning to explore the soundworld of Nowy Port, the district in Gdansk, where she spent last year. Natalia will work with themes of displacement, moving and unstable grounds against the backdrop of the repetitive technical sounds of the port.
Project is supported by British Council and realised as part of the preparations for the UK/Poland Season 2025
