Join Sonic Acts for an event with presentations on Thursday, 27 February 2025 at Ventilator Cinema (OT301), with artists Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr.

When we think about sewage and mud, we think about darkness, the underworld, and sticky things. But this time, we want you to think about infrastructure and sensing, different ways of feeling the world around us, and looking into things that are obscured, hidden, abject.

ALTERLIFE resident Alina Schmuch presents her work created during the residencies at Rupert in Vilnius and W139 in Amsterdam. The film Bathroom Studies focues on sewage robots and bathrooms. The screening is followed by a conversation about her ongoing research at the intersection of water infrastructures and the human body.

With the body as the central theme of this event’s programme, educator and spatial designer Cocky Eek’s contribution will guide us into the Alterlife with a nourishing somatic exercise, after which she will discuss her ongoing thoughts about fieldwork and mud-sensing. We will end the evening with thereminoise, a fantastic performance by noiserr aka Martina Raponi, who uses the theremin to explore the potential of body movement sounding space, thus expressing concepts with effects.