BURNING SILENCE

VOCAL PERFORMANCE · TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM ON FIRE ECOLOGIES AND SOUND

How to listen to a world on fire? 

Burning Silence explores the threshold between fire and silence, tracing how environmental destruction and resistance register across material, affective, and media ecologies. Burning manifests as wildfires intensified by extraction, as the combustion of petrocapitalist economies, as the noise and smoke of war and colonialism – but also as burns that regenerate soil and lifeworlds, and as the visceral heat of anger, grief, and demands for justice.  

The symposium is a space for cultivating conditions for slow listening, transversal thinking, and situated engagement. It brings together listening sessions, sound and lecture performances and conversations.

Curated by Hanna Grześkiewicz and Yasemin Keskintepe; with Areej Ashhab, Sanaz Azimipour, Asia Bazdyrieva, Cooking With Mama, Silvia Dal Dosso, eeefff, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Edka Jarząb, Valentina Karga, Garance Maurer, Ariel William Orah, Otucha Collective, Pisitakun, Nour Sokhon and Sinthujan Varatharajah.

Performers: Mina Dordević, Magda Jaroszewicz, Agnieszka Kucharska, Julia Legeżyńska, Doro Michalak, Liene Šilde, Ola Zielińska

SPORE INITIATIVE, BERLIN, 2026