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ZORKA WOLLY Born 1980 in Krakow, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her works function at the boundary between the music and visual arts and are strictly related to architecture. She collaborates—in a director-like mode—with musicians, actors and dancers and every time with members of local communities too. She has presented her projects a.o. at the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019), Steirischer Herbst Festival (2019), Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin (2018), CTM Festival in Berlin (2020, 2018, 2015), Savvy Contemporary in Berlin (2017, 2016), De Appel in Amsterdam (2017), Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin (2017), International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York (2017), among others. 

Singing Machine
by Zorka Wollny

The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.

From the middle of the 19th century, thousands of people from various parts of Europe moved to the Ruhr region and found employment in heavy industry, for example, at the Hanover mine. The workforce at that time consisted largely of Polish, Belgian, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, and Portuguese workers. The artist works with residents and newcomers from Bochum. In doing so, she illuminates the collective fears and visions that relate to ecological and economic transformation processes.

With: Anastasia Osoianu (MD/DE), Bidisha Das (IND/DE) Gîvara Efrîn (SYR/DE), Mohamad Tamem (SYR/DE), Ralf Lambrecht (Bed/Ruhristan Medine), Shevan Tamo (SYR/DE), Su Dönmez (TR/DE)

Composed and recorded in Malakow Tower, LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Hannover in Bochum, January-March 2022

Recorded by: Steven McEvoy (IRL/DK) and Bátor Tóth (HU/DE)
Mixed by: Steven McEvoy (IRL/DK)
Mastered by: Frederick Stader (DE)
Produced for the festival FUTUR 21

Published by: LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Hannover in Bochum and Errant Bodies Press, Berlin / 2023
Edition 300 copies

A- Side
01 Gluck Auf! 08:42
02 Bells 10:23
03 der Schacht 07:49

B - Side
04 Metal 07:16
05 In rein ländlicher Gegend 07:05
06 der Zusammenbruch 06:57