“Voice of the River” — performance/concert by Anna Nacher

We invite you to a deep dive into the resonances of rivers that Anna Nacher listened to for almost two decades. From the water flowing from the sky to the earth and the hundreds of variations of tones and sounds of water beyond the Arctic Circle in Sweden's Sápmi, through the voice of the Mississippi: a mighty river that, despite human efforts and policies of radical, colonial extractivism, still remains unsubdued, to the tiny streams and streams of the Carpathians that disappear under dramatic structural conditions, drought as a consequence of the climate disaster.

It is an intimate story about discovering the language of rivers — its texture, its ability to weave stories that bind us to the world. During the concert, the author will use processed and unprocessed field recordings, sounds generated by the sonification of the process of photosynthesis and voice.

Anna Nacher, PhD — Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University, researcher of media art, environmental humanities, sound practices and digital culture. Author of books and numerous scientific articles, as well as curator and participant of projects. As an artist, she carries out solo projects in the field recordings and situated listening area, which she presented, among others, at the Biennale Momentum 13 (Moss, Norway, 2025) and Nine Days of Green (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2026). Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (KPO grant for Culture, 2025). She has collaborated with American artist Victoria Vesna and the UCLA Art|Sci Center, where in 2021 she hosted as an online Artist-in-Residence as part of the project Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption. She is currently collaborating with Slovenian sound artist Ida Hiršenfelder as part of the After the Flood project focused on sound ecology of fossil fuel mining areas, with the support of Creative Industry Košice within the European Media Art Platform. Since 2015 he has been introducing the biotop Lechnica permaculture centre. In the years 2025-2026, as part of the Nowohucka Odyssey, she implemented a series of activities entitled “Library of Breaths”.