“River Speech” — workshop with Anna Nacher

During the workshop, we will reflect on how water and rivers “store memory”, as Robert Macfarlane wrote in his latest book. Starting from listening to the sounds of water in their different configurations and transformations, we will not only listen to how the stories of rivers and people intertwine with each other, but we will also reflect on the language with which these tangles can be described.

One of the methods will be attentive, in-depth listening. It will be accompanied by a work with language that will allow us to launch the resources of our imagination related to the sounds of water. The leitmotif of the meeting will be Dłubnia and the rich history of its connections with human history, culture and economy.

During the workshop we will:

create your own instructions (scores) for listening to situated rivers that are close to us or to which memories and memory bind us.

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”.