Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Claudia Lomoschitz & Crystal Wall

UNEARTHING GROUNDS – DIGGING DEEP

For the experimental conference Fleeting Voices, we propose excerpts of the audio piece Unearthing Grounds – Digging Deep, a feminist sonic-performance by artists and researchers Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Claudia Lomoschitz and Crystal Wall. Together they reflect on the relation and history of the soil beneath us. The artists intertwine storytelling, eco-poetry, song and imaginations as well as polyphonic and canonic singing to open up sensorial realms and feminist thoughts and methods of relating to the environment. We would like to present and share stories and songs and try out canonic singing with the conference audience.

To sonically dig deep is a form of confronting capitalist demands, uncovering hidden truths, as well as personal and feminist histories. Earth as a living substance inhabited by microorganisms, mycelium, roots, rodents. Beneath our feet there is a world of life and animals, worms and ants, mice and moles, a communicating network of roots that spans across kilometres. How can these voices be unearthed and how to find the sensibility to listen to them? Cities are growing and capitalist extractivism takes a toll on all living organisms, the climate is irreversibly changing and within the Anthropocene the earth is perceived as a resource. Unearthing Grounds – Digging Deep also honours eco-activist movements and highlights stories of protest that have protected the natural environment, like the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, the Chipko movement in India or the ZAD movement in France. What does our relation to earth uncover about ourselves?

Sowing seeding soil soul
Sowing seeding soil soul
Sowing seeding soil soul

Spoiling spilling seal soil
Spoiling spilling seal soil
Spoiling spilling selling oil

Spoiling spilling selling soul
Spoiling spilling selling soul
Spoiling spilling selling oil

Excerpt of the song

Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir (Iceland/Austria) is a dancer, choreographer and performer. Her works are situated between dance, performance and visual arts, seeking out formats beyond the stage. Andrea studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance where she graduated with a major in choreography in 2014. Her recent work Slowly Immanent (2024) was performed in KEX Kunsthalle Exnergasse. Her collaborative work CUMULUS together with Claudia Lomoschitz toured in Austria and abroad since its premiere at brut 2022. She collaborated as a performer in the works of Sara Lanner, Weaving Infrastructures (2024) and Sofie Thorsen for the film A Number of Small Screens, premiere 2025. Andrea received the Stipendium für Tanz und Performance in 2023.

Claudia Lomoschitz is a choreographer and visual artist born in Vienna, who works collaborative and research based on counter-hegemonic reproductive fantasies. She graduated Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg in collaboration with Kampnagel Hamburg and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Copenhagen and the Academy of fine Arts Vienna, where she currently teaches. Her works have been shown at brut Vienna (Vibrant Void, 2024), Metropolis Copenhagen (Cumulus, 2024), Ice Hot Oslo (Cumulus, 2024), Kunsthalle Vienna (Lactans, 2023), Art Hub Copenhagen (Lunch Lecture, 2023), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (PARTUS Gyno Bitch Tits, 2021), Tanzquartier Vienna (G.E.L., 2021), brut Vienna (Soft Skills, 2020), Belvedere 21 (Amazon, 2019).

Crystal Wall touches on the space between performance and singing, poetry and ritual, folk culture and queerness. Crystal relates (alpine) folk customs to queerness and infuses them with a pleasurable process of transformation until new performative rituals emerge. Their sonorous explorations cultivate an emphasis on wicked pitches and multi-modulated voices, and soft frilled screams. Through embodied polyphony and collective storytellings her/their work unravels aqueous poetic soundings and luring chants. Since 2019 in deep collaboration with the artist Andreea Vladut they are engaging in performative research on mourning rituals and narrations of loss and vulnerability.