To mark the end of her Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens project, Alisa Oleva has commissioned a collection of reflective texts, with contributions from Bill Dietz, Nele Möller and Compass’ own Jennie Gilman, and designed by Dasha Podoltseva.
To read the texts, download the PDF here.
Listening Gardens was a continuation of a collaboration between artist Alisa Oleva and Dasha Zakharets, from Kamianske, Ukraine, and now based in Leeds. Over a month at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Alisa facilitated a connection with Kamianske via an outdoor listening station, live streaming audio from a twinned location thousands of miles away. The sounds were live streaming from Dasha’s cherished family cottage – a place she hasn’t been since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The soundbox was taken care of in Ukraine by Dasha’s parents – Oksana and Ivan Zakharets.
In response to Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens, Alisa invited three friends and peers to write a commissioned text.
If you have any problems accessing the PDF, or would like to receive the commissioned texts in an alternative format, please email producing@compassliveart.org.uk
