KORKUT2026

Rites
of Eternal Wind

Il Korkut Sonic Arts Triennale

Dedicated to sound and listening, the Triennale creates a space for a wide range of sonic practices without restricting them by institutional boundaries. Over the course of two months, Rites of Eternal Wind will host sound installations and live events, listening sessions and soundwalks, hybrid lectures, discussions and workshops, somatic performances and explorations of sonic rituals and environments where sound is absent or even impossible.

Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

Impossible Territories

Biography

‍Founded in 2019, Impossible Territories is an interdisciplinary platform centered on workshops and improvisational performances that explore field recordings, sonic psychogeography, and the psychoacoustics of sound and listening. Run by Julia Sharifullina, a sound artist, scholar, and clinical psychologist with both practical and academic backgrounds, the project emphasizes process over results. It is geared primarily toward non-professionals and amateur sound practitioners, and at times even functions as a form of group therapy. As both an artist and educator, Julia works across various media to make sonic practices more accessible and less mythologized, reintegrating them into everyday life.

‍The Whispering Choir
‍Workshop-based performance (2026)

The Whispering Choir, a collaboration between Impossible Territories and Bint Mbareh, is an invitation to use the voice in a way that breaks the binary between verbal and musical uses, and a statement that the voice doesn't have to prove its purpose in order to be invoked.

Centered around whispering as a socio-cultural, psychoacoustic, and sonic phenomenon, it begins as a workshop activity that lays the theoretical foundations of how whispering, as a relatively soft and quiet type of sound, is processed by humans as it propagates through the air. Through group discussions and simple exercises, it continues with choir practice and culminates in a performance as part of the Rites of Eternal Wind concert program. The purpose of this choir is to introduce and explore the complexities that emerge in the use of the collective voice — where cooperative whispering turns into a dense, loud soundscape, and where intimate, personal layers can potentially transform into political ones.
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The Whisperer says:

‍“Trying to listen to the unheard is to step into unmapped terrain. It asks for another body, another mind, another language — and if you’re respectful enough, it meets you with a gentle breeze.”