»Voice. Fountain of memory. Kyiv-Charkiv-Odessa-Lviv«

»Voice. Fountain of memory. Kyiv-Charkiv-Odessa-Lviv«

On a long journey through Ukraine in 2018, Russian composer-performer Natalia Pschenitschnikova collected sound recordings of elderly women. Their voices were to become part of a large, almost »liturgical anti-war project«. At the beginning of her conversations, she always posed the question of the first sound memories–often a key to the most diverse, sometimes hidden or repressed memories.

In images, sounds, and text quotations, the artist creates an impressive course between installation and performance in the bunker at Diakonissenplatz in Stuttgart. The audience is immersed in a universe of post-Soviet experiences, observing, listening, reading in with their own empathy and individual sense of time.

Natalia Pschenitschnikova recommends a dwell time of about 45 to 75 minutes.

The 2018 Ukraine trip was sponsored by the Trust for Mutual Understanding with support from Summa Artium.