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
May 9
18:30
May 29
17:00
Jun 25
17:00
Medina Bazarğali presents Qorğasyn Qorğamasyn
In Qorğasyn Qorğamasyn, Medina guides listeners along the traces of lethal bullets embedded in walls and surfaces within Almaty downtown. In the ritual of qorğasyn qūyu, molten lead is poured into water to give shape to something internal, visceral — allowing the lead to absorb fear and protect the body. Here, the same material plays two opposing roles: it both wards off evil and inflicts it. Sound follows the logic of the ritual, moving between trauma and healing, protection and harm, memory and matter — between pressure, collapse, and resistance.