Sonia Milewska | Marijn Bril | Laura Palma | Hanna Hrynkevich | Hugo Sant’Ana

Are you there? re-imagines a former phone kiosk as a dedicated time and space for listening and connecting in a time of crisis. The project uses a simple phone call as an abstracted way to receive signals and experience distant ambiences in real-time. Inside the 1896 Fritz Koch Kiosk on Aalborg’s Nytorv, listeners pick up the phone and experience an intimate one-to-one sonic connection. In a context of conflict and war in Europe – during which people and infrastructures are under attack – the ‘old’ medium of phone calls is an important means of communication. Going back to a time when information technologies were not yet ubiquitous, listeners are invited to bridge geographical distances and understandings through sustained focus. Sound artists from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Colombia perform a musical composition to reflect on Russian aggression against Ukraine and the experience of war in general. During the performance, each participant will be invited inside of the kiosk and will be given an opportunity to listen to a sound performance through a real analogue phone in real-time. The project aims to encourage international audiences to pay attention to the war from a personal viewpoint and review the instability of our reality.

Polish composer, sound designer, sound engineer, currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. In her latest works Aleksandra has been focusing on finding subtle connections between acoustic instruments and modular synthesizers, creating rich and diverse drone structures, slowly but intensely pulsing and resonating within the surrounding space and the listener. Her music was presented at various music & film festivals in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and USA.

project manager of Exploratorio, a public experimentation workshop at Parque Explora in Medellín,Colombia; a scenario for participation, training and skills development, based on technical and technological appropriation. Cantor is a digital artist and industrial designer with experience in the creation and administration of collaborative strategies on the Internet, and management of artistic projects related to experimentation and creation. He was part of the El Niuton collective, where he collaborated with content dedicated to making visible initiatives that interact between design, science, art and technology. Currently, he is part of Auditum collective where he works on sound experimentation.

Columbian experimental musician, improviser, composer, and sound artist. He studied composition and electroacoustic music with Chilean Gabriel Brncic, flute with Hiroshi Kobayashi and Joan Bofill, Sonology with Clarence Barlow, Konrad Bohemer, Paul Berg, Kees Tazelaar, Joel Ryan and Stan Tempelaars. He also holds a BA in Anthropology from Hunter College in New York City and a Master in Fine Arts (MFA) from the same university. His work focuses on the practice of improvisation; the use of unconventional sound sources, both acoustic and electronic; and collaborations. His work is presented in compositions, installations, sound objects, sound interventions, concerts, curatorships and writings.

born in Krasnodon, Ukraine. M.A. in automatization and computer technologies, East-Ukrainian National University Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. One of the head members of Kharkiv Hackerspace (KHackerspace). Member of aDDDlab. R&D engineer.

Hanna Hrynkevich is a photographer, journalist, and cultural PR manager. Was born in 1990 in Minsk (Belarus). Graduated from the Belarusian State University, the Faculty of Journalism. In 2015 began to work on personal photo projects (“Happiness is…”, “The Place”, “Born in the USSR”, photo book “Agejczyk”), combining documentary and art approaches. Research interests: post-photography, ethics of photojournalism.

Hugo Sant’Ana Lima is an experience designer, researcher and artist from São Paulo, Brazil. Active in South America art market, he graduated in Media Studies at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) in 2016 and started producing independent and commissioned art exhibitions for galleries, art fairs and collectives since then. During the 2019 pandemics, he specialized in User Experience Design and started focusing his work on the digitalisation of the art world, creating unique online experiences for art auctions and video streaming. In 2021, he was awarded full merit Erasmus scholarship to research future digital solutions for Media Arts Cultures.