Magdaléna Manderlová

Selected projects
Fuglefotdelta
Kozmic Sounds
Leangenbukta
In a Salty Stream
The Field upon which I Walk is the Song
Straw Bales
HISS

Information
HISS
2019

Sonic essay (27’), text and composition by Magdaléna Manderlová with voices by Katherine Butcher and Alex Murray-Leslie.
Artist book (A4, 56 pages, risograph print), designed by Kateřina Havelková.
Both commissioned for the exhibition The Earth / Current Way of Living at Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, 2019, curated by Tereza Záchová.

Video (27’), animated by Kateřina Havelková, commisioned for the project Regeneration.

The installation was exhibited at Numinous Beginnings (group exhibition), Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway (2020); Sound Occupations (group exhibition) at STIFF Film Festival, Rijeka, Croatia (2020); HISS (solo exhibition) at TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Norway (2020); The Earth/Current Way of Living (group exhibition) at Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic (2019- 2020).

HISS (audio) was re-broadcasted at Radio Hopes and Dreams (2021), RUMMUR radio (2020), Radio Space by Borealis festival for experimental music (2020), and Girlmonster! at Radio Primavera Sound (2019).

HISS (text) was re-published at SOUNDEST issue 6 (2020) and Fusion Journal, Listening in the Anthropocene edition (2021).




Ústí nad Labem is situated in the North Bohemian region, whose land has been severely transformed and contaminated by the continuous extraction of lignite and related industries. Here, the extraction process has been prioritized over the lives of people and ecosystems, leading to displacement, manipulation and loss of settlements, villages, water systems, habitats, and plant and animal lives. 

I engaged with the land and the sonic environments by walking, sensing, listening, field recording and writing. I wanted to meet the land, to feel its natural and cultural stories while widening my sonic imagination. I walked through Bílina, Braňany, Černice, Duchcov, Jedovina, Lom u Mostu, Mariánské Radčice, Milada, Most, Osek, Roudníky, Trmice, Ústí nad Labem, Vršanská vyhlídka, and Vysoká Pec. 

I invite and encourage the audience to feel and explore these places, to linger in and drift through this alternative time, sound, and light.
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