A sensitive dialogue between (in)organic matter and technology defines the event-space of the audiovisual concert.
Objects, bodies, beings, by offering us their physical presence, initiate sensory perception and inspire new forms: ephemeral, digital. Katarzyna Podpora explores the sonic potential of inanimate subjects commonly regarded as waste (shattered ceramics, polluted sand, scratched vinyl records, etc.), remnants of non-human beings (amplified animal bones, dried plant parts), and spaces (which she captures on tape). These are the entities the artist collaborates with to create music. Laura Adel arranges virtual models of objects in a programming environment, blurring and transforming them into sound-responsive images that intertwine nature and digitality.
The concert draws us closer to these beings, to the bodies that, under the artists’ hands, migrate between the sensual realm and the digital environment.
Laura Adel – interdisciplinary artist. She is currently pursuing a PhD titled “The Tenderness of Art: Research and Creation of Immersive Interactive Installations” at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, under the supervision of Prof. Jakub Jernajczyk. In her artistic practice, she explores the subtlety of the digital world by creating abstract, moving images inspired by natural phenomena. She works with installations, video, and sculptural objects.
Her works have been presented, among others, at the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk and the National Museum – Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław. She uses new technologies to design visual environments for theater performances, which have been shown at venues such as Studio Theatre in Warsaw and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. Developing her original concept of “subcutaneous audio-reactivity,” Adel creates visualizations for music concerts during events and festivals such as the Open Source Festival in Sopot or the WRO Biennale.
As part of the EU-funded Magic Carpets program, she participated in a residency at the Wrocław Institute of Culture. The works created during this time were selected for the international exhibition SUPERORGANISM 2024 in Tartu, Estonia – the European Capital of Culture – summarizing four years of the program’s activity. In February 2025, she held a solo exhibition titled “Tender Bodies”, which concluded a project awarded the Artistic Grant of the Mayor of Wrocław. Laura Adel’s video works are part of the Urban Screen Production collection and are exhibited in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Katarzyna Podpora – multimedia artist based in Gdańsk, bonded with the sea – its audiosphere, flux, influence on matter; she’s active in the field of sound, visual and textual art, and holds a PhD in Sculpture and Intermedia Art; she’s a translator as well.
Her creative work revolves around experiencing space through presence and activity of its material inhabitants (both living and non-living), the Otherness of dead remains, the processual and ephemeral aspects of form. Having worked with sound for many years, she focuses on listening. While crearing experimental music (solo and in a duo with Max Kohyt as PODPORA/KOHYT), she highlights the role of her instrumentarium which consists of objects considered trash, including remains of non-human beings – animal bones, dead parts of plants, as well as dilapidated instruments, destroyed gramophone records and tapes with field recordings.
Another part of her art-led research is focused on the issue of recording by means of various media. Her artworks – installations, sculptures, photographs, sounds, texts – have been presented at festivals, including: the International Festival of Ephemeral Art ‘Konteksty’ (Sokołowsko), SURVIVAL Art Review (Wrocław), Ad Libitum (Warsaw), Sanatorium of Sound (Sokołowsko), Fab_IN (Łódź), OSA Festival (Sopot); as individual shows, e.g. at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, and as part of collective exhibitions, e.g. at Wyspa Institute of Art (Gdańsk), State Gallery of Art (Sopot), Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Centre of Polish Sculpture (Orońsko), Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdańsk).