next of skin | Unheard Life of Stones

Soundgallery: ohrenhoch-Sonntage
13 and 20 January, 3, 10, 17 February 2019, 2pm - 9pm:

2 works by Martyna Poznańska

Next of Skin

(2018) video

Unheard Life of Stones

(2018) stones, brass plate, transducers, electronics

Martyna Poznańska on 'next of skin' [6:18 min.]:
'Next of Skin’ (2018) is a continuation of the work‚ ‚My Body Is The Forest, The Forest Is My Body’ (2017). It  conceptualizes the relationship between human body and the body of nature treating them as one organism. Seeking to remove the boarders and searching for a sensitive, intimate and direct contact embraced in a reciprocate rhythm.
In this video Martyna wants to become a forest, to return her body to the natural environment, where it belongs. She lies down and gradually envelops herself with whatever organic matter her body encounters on its way.
She feels that, through this very physical and intimate experience of giving her body into the environment, she can perceive it from a closer and purer perspective.
It is an ongoing project in which Martyna is searching for new forms of connections with the environment using her own body and opening it to various textural intimacies.

Martyna Poznańska über 'Unheard Life of Stones':
The Unheard Life of Stones is a sound sculpture and an artificial environment, which intends to create movement within apparently immobile and solid matter such usually a stone is considered. Since the process of petrification and various stages of transition of stones most of the times exceed our own lifespan they are occult and imperceivable. We can only assume a stone which is not yet a stone or observes an already stone. The piece reflects upon perpetual processes which happen in nature without our knowledge nor participation due to our transient existence.
The stones excited with low frequencies reveal in an exaggerated way the atomic exchange between their bodies which are now intertwined in an uncanny and imposed dance.

Audio Field Report no.22:
Interview with Martyna Poznańska von Knut Remond, artistic director and curator ohrenhoch. December 2015. Limited edition MC Kassette, 8 copies numbered. To hear on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive space.

Martyna Poznańska is a cross-disciplinary artist who works with different media across disciplines, building connections between the intangible medium of sound and solid matter. This includes the practice of listening and field recording in tangent to working with various visual tools such as drawing, video, mixed media, found objects, and writing.

She has exhibited and performed internationally in shows at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE), Deutsche Oper, Berlin (DE), Aperto Raum Berlin, among others. In addition, she has worked with renowned artists such as Hans Peter Kuhn (Übergang, Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, 2017), and Peter Cusack.  In 2013 she was a recipient of a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.

Martyna completed a master’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, 2010. She studied Sound Art at the University of the Arts, London (LCC/UAL). In 2016 she obtained an MA in Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK).

Martyna lives and works in Berlin.

Website Martyna Poznańska