Drawing Nearby –
Ten Short Drawn Annotations
2022, Manifesta 14, Prishtina.
Pigment ink on paper.
each 21 x 29.7cm

Collaboration with Anna Bromley as part of her work:
“A voice exists in voicing” Radiophonic Walks and Conversations.
Ten-part radio piece, Radio Otherwise Manifesta 14 Prishtina (July–October 2022)

A Voice Exists in Voicing, the series of radio essays and sonic portraits by Anna Bromley opened the Manifesta 14 Radio in Prishtina in the summer of 2022.

Drawing from her on-site research on current (re)appropriations of spaces, herstories, technologies, documents and vegetables, Anna Bromley engages her interlocutors in memories, tirades, reflections and speculations.
The original sounds were carefully edited and mixed to condense the protagonists' flow of speech into sonic portraits.

Each episode is accompanied by one of my drawings.
Rather than illustrating what is heard, they follow the meandering movements in their own way. I was involved in the creation of the radio series, working on the audio editing and dramaturgy. While listening to the material over the course of several weeks, I created drawings that feel their way through the unfolding undertones.

In the process,  Anna Bromley is sent from one person to the next and features an arthouse filmmaker, a cinema and its young film festival director, two musicians and a sound engineer, a philosopher who, by chance, curated an implausible exhibition just before the war, whose archival traces are being taken care of by the next generation today, a stage designer, who became a gallerist during the repression, a fierce cultural journalist and his garden, an artist who befriends a Serbian-speaking mining town, a story-woven project space which is now a parking lot, and the 1980s adolescent years of a trans woman and her companion.
Talking, giggling, munching and getting lost, they go to the village, to the cinema or to the much-loved restaurant Tiffany, plunging themselves into the past and the translation app.

The drawings were published in 2024 in the publication I Speak Radio.

You can listen to the series on the Manifesta 14 Radio Otherwise website. 

View below: Online presentation on the website of Manifesta 14