Join us on Friday, 30 May at 18:30 for Stratifying, a live improvisation performance co-created by Nayarí Castillo and Reni Hofmüller.

This immersive sound composition draws from recordings captured in forests across Austria, interwoven with poetic texts and spoken word. Sounds and words merge to bring the audience to the forest floor, an invitation to close your eyes, breathe in the scent of damp soil and humus, and listen to the hidden life of the underground. Stratifying is an acoustic intervention reflecting on the fragility, resistance, and fluidity of living beings. It invites listeners to navigate the subtle realms and dimensions of the earth. The words offer poetic cues, echoes of rhythms of wakefulness, latency, and pause. The forest speaks, and through this collective listening experience, we begin to transform—together becoming a new landscape of forests.

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union (Creative Europe), Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)