Katarzyna Podpora - multi-/intermedia artist, performer and translator based in Gdańsk (Poland), bonded with the sea - its audiosphere, flux, influence on matter; she’s active in the field of sound, visual and textual art, and holds a PhD in Sculpture and Intermedia Art. Her creative work revolves around material and individual qualities of beings (both living and non-living), performative and ephemeral aspects of form, as well as the issues of process and memory in the context of recordings made by means of various media - audio, video, photography. She focuses on listening to matter and spaces. While creating experimental music (e.g. in the PODPORA/KOHYT duo), she highlights the role of her instrumentarium which consists of objects considered trash, including dead remains of non-human beings - animal bones, dead parts of plants, as well as dilapidated instruments, destroyed gramophone records and tapes with field recordings. Her artworks have been presented at many exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art or music. PODPORA/KOHYT - as a duo and in collaborations - have released several albums with the Bocian Records label.