Thursday, September 21, 2023 / 18:00-22:00, with reading by the artists of their new book b for the birds (at 21:00)

Location: Errant Sound, Rungestrasse 20, 10179 Berlin

Coinciding with the publication of their new book “b for the birds” (Errand Bodies Press), Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson present LIKE LICHENS LISTEN (Variation V). Inspired by the symbiotic interactions of lichens and the extraordinary solidarity of the vegetal world that fosters collaboration between organisms of completely different natures, LIKE LICHENS LISTEN recreates an immersive space where we can dwell in an awareness of deep time. Images of the Garajonay Forest (La Gomera), an ancient living organism that contains an enormous variety of endangered plants – last vestiges of the vegetation that covered most of Europe millions of years ago – are visited by visual and sonic shadows that gradually reveal the names of extinct bird species, entangled with poetic text fragments. This magical ecosystem, with its shifting electroacoustic soundscape, invites us to re-enchant the world and listen to the play of inter-species alliances.

Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni are filmmakers, artists and researchers whose work explores the porous borders between fiction and documentary, the visible and the invisible, the audible and what has been silenced. Focusing on the reactivation of lost, forgotten or silenced archives and histories, their practice includes the creation of films, mixed-media installations, soundworks, film-performances, radio shows, vernacular technologies and books. In dialogue with literature, philosophy, music and science, their work is research-based, process-oriented and trans-disciplinary, proposing new forms of collective vision and engagement with contemporary thought and politics.