Interactive Installation | Action Art Festival 2026: Voices of Now
📅 3 October 2026 | 10:00-22:00 | GVUN Jízdárna (Gallery of Fine Arts in Náchod), Náchod, Czech Republic
Excited to join an upcoming group exhibition with international artists at the Action Art Festival in Náchod, Czech Republic. This marks my foray into conceptual installation art – work that engages directly with social and political themes, marking a deliberate split from my more aesthetic explorations with ink, charcoal, and music. For this program, I shall present an interactive installation titled 'Siren Doomsongs and Blown Windpipes' examining voice, testimony, and complicity as a diagram of contemporary media consumption. Using industrial PVC drainage pipework as both installation material and acoustic apparatus, I restage three structural positions from Homer's Sirens episode: the bound listener hearing testimonies of whistleblowers and journalists echoed through the pipes, the deafened navigator scrolling the same content on a separate muted terminal, and the unseen seducer of the algorithm trained on the initial playlist which recommends further content for doomscrolling. The piece asks who controls the voice being heard, whose freedom or voice is at stake institutionally, and what is lost when hearing and acting are split apart by media consumption.
More details here: https://www.gvun.cz/programy/action-art-festival-2026/
