Today I’m happy to welcome Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne to the show. Polina and Andreas create amazing sounds on their own and in collaboration. Together they play with narratives, community, shadow economies, and human relationships with environments. They work with an impressive array of techniques merging merges documentary filmmaking, AV performance, interactive installation, electroacoustic instruments introducing new ways of improvising in live performance. I can’t wait to chat with them both and hear some sounds go let’s get into it! Track listing Anarchiving Rávdnji (2024). A live audiovisual performance following forward traces from “Rávdnji” exhibition at The Arctic University Museum with Elin Anna Labba’s reading of her book “The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow” (spoken in Northern Sámi). For this performance at Tromsø Kunstforening, artists and collaborators of the exhibition Andreas Kühne and Polina Medvedeva improvise with the audiovisual material they gathered for the exhibition and invited Risten Anine Kvernmo Gaup to add new traces in response. Cross-border Interference (to be released, 2026). Part of a documentation series of feedback improvisation performances by Andreas Kühne, camera Polina Medvedeva Facing the Spills (to be released, 2026). Short film, live film performance and audiovisual installation by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne with Runa Sætervoll, Anastasia Kizilova, the lands, waters and animals in the Várjjat / Varanger area on the Norwegian side of Sápmi. The Informals II 360 (2023) Live a/v performance by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne with Bobbie Johnson, Phonetic, and Marshall Mandiangu. Commissioned by Lighthouse, Brighton and Brighton Festival, Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL and Creative Europe Programme of the European Union Audio Zine "Flowing, flushing, freezing, streaming: Listening at the intersection of human interference" (2025) based on a workshop developed by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne for Arctic Auditories: Hydrospheres in the High North (NFR 325506, 2021-25), recorded at Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art on May 25th 2025. The audio zine brings together recorded sounds, compositions, and live performances by Anna, Nathalia, Lars, Karolin, Anna, Femi, Lea, Sofía, Sindre, Mattin, Grisha, Anders, Johanna, Gwen, Martha, Eimear, Enrique, Lio, Steve, Ylva, Florentine, Angus, Polina and the anthropogenic waters of Tromsø, Romsa in northern Norway, Sápmi Links and Bios Polina Medvedeva (NL/NO) works at the intersection of film, installation and performance, portraying individuals or communities who exist by circumventing political prohibitions, societal stereotypes, and effects of economic crises and conflicts. Questioning linearity in storytelling, she explores formats that allow for nuance and multiplicity of narratives. Medvedeva has been a resident at de Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (2020-2022) and her work was exhibited at among others Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; Lydgalleriet, Bergen; Tromsø Kunstforening; Al-M_a_’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem and Bak Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht. Performances include Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall; Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki; HYBRID Biennale, Dresden; Sonic Acts festival, Amsterdam; Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær; Brighton Festival, Brighton. Medvedeva has been a guest tutor at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, KMD Bergen, Tromsø Art Academy, ArtEZ Zwolle, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and a tutor and lecturer at the Utrecht University of the Arts. She is a member of the selection committee for the Creative Industries Fund NL and a board member of The One Minutes Foundation. https://www.polinamedvedeva.net/ https://www.instagram.com/p.a.medvedeva/ Andreas Kühne (NL/NO) is a sound artist, composer, and drummer making electroacoustic music, collaborative audiovisual performances and interactive installations that focus on listening positionalities and cross-pollination between improvisation practices and the milieu. Andreas is a PhD fellow in electronic music and music technology at the Academy of Music, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and Grieg Academy, University of Bergen (UiB). His artistic research seeks to imagine practice-based strategies of radical attentiveness to face industrialisation and settler entanglements to human and more-than-human entities in Sápmi/Northern Norway. Kühne’s work has been exhibited and performed at among others Tromsø Kunstforening, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, Lofoten International Art Festival, Arctic University Museum of Norway (NO), Sonic Acts Festival, Rewire Festival (NL), HYBRID Biennale (DE), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), and Lighthouse (UK).https://andreaskuhne.net/ https://www.instagram.com/andreaskuhne_/ Combined biography In their collaborative practice creating storytelling experiences from transdisciplinary assemblages, sound artist Andreas Kühne and artist, filmmaker Polina Medvedeva engage ways of listening-with landscapes and its agents to produce a feedback of the patchwork of historical, geopolitical and socio-economic layers. Lom Audio Priezor electromagnetic microphone https://store.lom.audio/products/priezor?variant=5859618062368 Dylan Robinson (2020) Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minnesota Press Mark Peter Wright (2022) Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing Kühne-Medvedeva (2025) From cinema to stage: On live assembling film, improvisational fiction and relationality. The International Network of Experimental Fictional Filmmaking (INEFF).
