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Reconfiguration Chapter 1: schhhhhh
Tetiana Kornieieva
28 June 2025 17:00–17:15
'Reconfiguration' is a performative and sonic exploration of fractured perception and the search for resonance in distortion. The performance combines installation, voice and sound to illuminate the instability of truth in a hyper-mediatised world.
At the centre is a growing visual structure made of lead glass and charred wooden panels. The artist reinterprets St Sebastian as a symbol of digital martyrdom, pierced by overexposure and sensory overload. His body is continuously reconfigured, reflecting the fragility of identity in the age of simulation.
A text composition of personal observations and associative language drives the performance. Words, often ending in ‘-tion’ and ‘-schhhh’, act as sonic ghosts: whispering, mechanical, ambiguous. They imitate radio interference and create the feeling of listening through interference. Fragments are spoken, whispered, disturbed and dissolved into noise.
Sound here is structural, not illustrative. The subtle interplay of whispers, field recordings and filtered radio creates an auditory field of unstable meaning.
How do we find truth in whispers?
Based on Jean Baudrillard, ‘Reconfiguration’ resists clarity. It is a delicate counter-gesture: an attempt to collect fragments, to feel resonance in the broken and to reassemble presence in the absence of linear meaning.
The work invites the audience into a present moment of active perception in which memory is reconfigured in tension with sound, silence and light.
At the centre is a growing visual structure made of lead glass and charred wooden panels. The artist reinterprets St Sebastian as a symbol of digital martyrdom, pierced by overexposure and sensory overload. His body is continuously reconfigured, reflecting the fragility of identity in the age of simulation.
A text composition of personal observations and associative language drives the performance. Words, often ending in ‘-tion’ and ‘-schhhh’, act as sonic ghosts: whispering, mechanical, ambiguous. They imitate radio interference and create the feeling of listening through interference. Fragments are spoken, whispered, disturbed and dissolved into noise.
Sound here is structural, not illustrative. The subtle interplay of whispers, field recordings and filtered radio creates an auditory field of unstable meaning.
How do we find truth in whispers?
Based on Jean Baudrillard, ‘Reconfiguration’ resists clarity. It is a delicate counter-gesture: an attempt to collect fragments, to feel resonance in the broken and to reassemble presence in the absence of linear meaning.
The work invites the audience into a present moment of active perception in which memory is reconfigured in tension with sound, silence and light.
Biography
Tetiana Kornieieva
Tetiana Kornieieva (b. 1993, Kyiv) is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, and sound to explore the intersections of history, memory, and embodiment. Her practice draws on archival research, oral histories, and spatial investigation to examine how personal and collective narratives are formed, silenced, and revived.
Kornieieva combines glass, sound, and wearable sculptural elements to reflect on the fragility of the body as an architectural structure and to question its role as a vessel of memory. At the core of her work is the inscription of memory into material forms and its visibility within the tension between private and public space. The artist lives and works between Berlin and Munich.
Kornieieva combines glass, sound, and wearable sculptural elements to reflect on the fragility of the body as an architectural structure and to question its role as a vessel of memory. At the core of her work is the inscription of memory into material forms and its visibility within the tension between private and public space. The artist lives and works between Berlin and Munich.
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