POHYB–ZVUK–PROSTOR | Sound Sensitivity in the Landscape IV.

🗓 13. 9. 2025 | 14:00 | Kozmické ptačí louky 📍 Meeting point: Kozmické ptačí louky, pozorovatelna (49.903389, 18.135948)

🌿 Peter Cusack # Michal Kindernay # Magdaléna Manderlová # Adela Mede # Udo Noll # Claudia Von Hasselt & Nicolas Wiese # Martina Weber

🌿 Curated by: Magdaléna Manderlová and Michal Kindernay

🌿 For the fourth time, together with Magdaléna Manderlová, Michal Kindernay, and the Bludný kámen collective, we return to the environment of the Kozmice Bird Meadows. This long-term project listens to the transformations of the soundscapes of the Opava River and its living floodplains. Floodplain areas—their presence, loss, and gradual disappearance—have become an urgent issue once again after the devastating floods of 2024. The Kozmice meadows, one of the last two floodplain areas of the Opava River, stand here as a fragile memory of water and as testimony to a landscape that can breathe together with the river.

The (Non)festival is preceded by a week-long symposium of artists, during which works are created in close relation to the specific site. This year’s program brings new collaborations. Berlin-based artist Udo Noll will build an autonomous microphone, permanently placed in the meadows for 24-hour listening, monitoring, and collecting bird data. The duo Claudia von Hasselt & Nicolas Wiese will contribute with their long-term artistic research on the Oder River.

The festival itself is conceived as a sequence of interconnected events—from participatory listening exercises to concerts and performances—that link the audience with the place and its soundscape.

The festival was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Statutory City of Opava and the Czech-German Future Fund.