Broumov Monastery
1 – 28 February 2026

Borderland Forest Spells: Listening with the land that remembers focuses on the Czech–Polish border region, historically known as the Sudetenland – a landscape shaped by displacement, migration, and layered histories of belonging. The project turns to the Sudetenland, both as a site of loss and re-rooting and as a space where ancestral memory, myth, and future imaginaries can converge, returning with Agnieszka Bułacik to the forests of her childhood, where an intimate relationship with this borderland first took root.

Working with Slavic mythology and forest spirituality, Agnieszka Bułacik, Liene Jurgelāne, and Hanna Grześkiewicz seek to listen with the plants and mountains as witnesses and co-conspirators in the time of climate catastrophe. Building on their previous collaborations, which explored human-plants relations and borderlands through collective listening, this residency will focus on site-specific practices of vegetal attunement and stories from the Broumov region and its surroundings. Through field recordings, singing, and participatory vocal rituals, they aim to co-weave spells and songs with the local environment: sonic fictions that both mourn ecological devastation and imagine alternative forms of kinship across borders and species.

The work will unfold as a series of sonic rituals and gatherings – sensory walks, workshops, and performances – that invite participants into practices of deep listening and collective dreaming. By resounding the forest and the mountains, the project seeks to uncover an ecology of care that bridges myth, memory, and feminist solidarity, while conjuring the possibility of a borderless future.

Borderland Forest Spells: Listening with the land that remembers invites to feel the Sudetenland as a place to heal separations, conspire with plants, and summon new imaginaries for living together in a collapsing world.