Intermediale FESTIVAL 2026
23.10-29.11.2026 >Legnica >Poland
Concerts, AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
VENUE
Legnickie Centrum Kultury
Sala Maneżowa, ul. Chojnowska 2
Legnica, Poland
23.10.2026, 19.00
Inire (Pl)
Inire is an audiovisual duo working at the intersection of sound art, experimental audiovisual practices, and artistic research. In their work, they combine field recordings, sound and image synthesis, new technologies, and critical reflection on the relationships between environment, memory, and perception.
Inire’s projects take the form of audiovisual performances, installations, and site-specific interventions, exploring the connections between landscape, media, and the experience of listening. The duo’s practice develops at the crossroads of sound art and experimental art, treating sound and image as tools for investigating and reinterpreting reality.The performance "Places 1.1" is an audiovisual exploration of the interweaving of memory, nature, and territory. As the first chapter of a long-term project dedicated to the relationship between territory and experience, the work stems from artistic research conducted in Sardinia. Local narratives, traces of human and non-human presence, field recordings, and audiovisual technologies intertwine here into a multi-layered composition of sound and image. The project unfolds at the intersection of environmental ecology and media ecology, treating listening, observation, and experimentation as practices for understanding ecosystems. Landscape sounds, the materiality of place, and technological modes of perception create a space where territory reveals itself not as a static backdrop, but as a living, dynamic participant in a relationship. "Places 1.1" invites the audience to immerse themselves in the sensory topography of Sardinia and to experience the place through the interpenetrating layers of sound, image, and memory.for the performance, which is interdisciplinary art as research, is the work of leading early electronic artists, Pauline Oliveros' innovative deep listening methods, and the avant-garde approach to composition in the radio works of Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram. The project was carried out as part of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
L’Astra Cosmo (US)
L’Astra Cosmo’s Jahnavi Stenflo and Nathan Jantz have been working together creatively in different capacities for over 20 years. L’Astra Cosmo’s work is rooted in a future-retro aesthetic: Seeking a hybrid visual language that lives unexplored between the past and the future, science and mysticism, technology and organic matter. Utilizing oscilloscopic displays, they approach “obsolete” video technologies not as relics, but as re-activated mediums and interlocutors. Treating these elements as catalysts in an explorative dialogue, their work directly addresses perception, entropy, and the aesthetics of signal decay. This methodology allows for critical reclaiming and renewal, moving the axis of experimental video forward by reaffirming its utility as a current process for discovery and examination in signal aesthetics through committed technical practice.
Lightphorms is an electrifying exploration into the secret world of phosphorescent visual forms that are generated using sound and voltage-controlled analog signals and captured from vintage oscillographic CRT displays and modified vector game displays from the early 1980’s. This new, evolving work incorporates elements of vector and video synthesis with themes of retrofuturism, early analog computer animation techniques, all presented in hyper-chromatic visual form. Lightphorms explores the direct relationship between sound and light combined with artificial depth perception by exploiting a visual illusion known as chromostereopsis that can be enhanced and observed through ChromaDepthTM 3D glasses, taking audiences to new heights of synesthesia.
Benicewicz (PL)
Wojciech Benicewicz is a composer, music producer, sound designer, and visual artist. Since 1995, his video works and audiovisual projects have been presented at numerous festivals, concerts, and art reviews, including the WRO Media Art Biennale, the Intermediale Visual Forms Festival, the LEM Festival in Barcelona, the Wrocław Industrial Festival, the Hamburg Artgenda festival, as well as during events such as Transwizje, the Dwie Wieże festival in Gubin, Temple of Silence in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Trzecia Fala in Warsaw, and as part of cycles such as RYTUAŁ RECESJA-RETORSJE-BANG, Re: Independent Visions Art Invasion, and Videoprzestrzenie BWA.
In his solo work and interdisciplinary projects, the artist draws inspiration from musical minimalism and serialism, combining them with the aesthetics of contemporary electronics, ambient, dark ambient, and IDM. His solo discography includes music releases and albums such as Strains, Spirits, The State (associated with music for a Butoh performance), Momentary Ripples, Movements, Robot, Pianos, and Fujarki. An important area of his activity is also his ongoing collaboration with creators of Butoh theater (including productions like The State and Spirits), as well as the production of advanced mixes in multi-channel surround formats.
Benicewicz’s work, drawing inspiration from neo-cameralism, ethnic music, and IDM, hovers at the intersection of genres, navigating them with rare grace. It has frequently been compared to the music of Coil or New York minimalists such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. This is likely because few Polish artists operate in similar sonic territory, crafting atmospheric passages interwoven with uniquely complex rhythms. At Intermediale, Benicewicz will present material from his new album, „Strains” (2026).
Cičići (SL)
Cičići is an open project dedicated to improvised experimental music that treats sound as an event and space as a compositional tool. Its creators develop "open compositional templates" based on improvisation, sonic textures, and a dialogue with the acoustic properties of the performance venues. Each performance is crafted in response to the specific space, the lineup of musicians, and the audience, creating a unique sonic experience.
The group consists of Jure Boršič, Luka Zabric, and Nikola Vuković, who will present an audiovisual performance at this year’s Intermediale in collaboration with visual artists from the festival.
Jure Boršič, a Slovenian saxophonist and clarinetist of the younger generation, is interested in various musical styles and genres, from improvised music, free jazz and electroacoustic music to noise and experimental metal. He was a member of numerous Slovenian alternative music bands and shared the stage with renowned artists as an improviser.
Luka Zabric, saxophonist, completed his postgraduate studies in music performance at the Conservatory (RMC) in Denmark. He seeks inspiration in the broad sound spectrum and acoustic phenomena of the saxophone, which he approaches through the research and use of extended techniques and instrumental preparations. He builds his improvisational practice on this and outlines the framework of composition within projects and occasional collaborations that he (co)leads and for which he is artistically responsible.
Nikola Vuković, trumpeter, improviser and composer, continued his specialization in contemporary music at Klangforum Wien after his master's degree in jazz in Graz. He is active on the jazz, improvised and contemporary music scene. He focuses on exploring sound and trumpet from increasingly foreign spectral corners, including his own "invention" of the prepared pocket trumpet.
The concert is supported by Music Slovenia.
24.10.2026, 19.00
Radio Internazionale (Pl)
Radio Internazionale is an interdisciplinary artistic project initiated in the first half of the 1990s, situated at the intersection of sound art, radio drama, and neo-folk and industrial aesthetics. Its practice is rooted in the deconstruction of the epistolary form and the creative reworking of motifs drawn from nineteenth-century literature, filtered through grotesque, irony, and pastiche.
Its sonic layer consists of dense collages constructed from found-footage materials, field recordings, and fragments of voices, texts, and archival sources. The project deliberately employs an aesthetic of noise, error, and imperfection, drawing on the traditions of Futurism and musique concrète as well as lo-fi practices. A distinctive feature of its works is the juxtaposition of contrasting textures and modes of expression, combining the rawness of art brut with elaborate vocal and instrumental forms.
The work of Radio Internazionale develops at the intersection of music, poetry, and visual art. Sound is approached in a painterly manner, and compositions are shaped primarily through timbre, texture, and associative connections rather than traditional melodic narrative. Elements of radio drama, correspondence, and archival storytelling create an atmosphere of existential disintegration in which nostalgia is subjected to critical revision, giving way to reflections on memory, communication, and the cultural modes through which reality is represented.
Silvia Cignoli (IT)
Silvia Cignoli is a classical and electric guitarist, a versatile musician, and a composer. She graduated from the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan and earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance with distinction from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Her interests span classical and contemporary music, ranging from radical improvisation to avant-garde rock, as well as her own compositions, which blend her academic training with improvisation and elements of classical and electronic music. ELVIRA PERFORMANCE
Elvira is an audiovisual project inspired by the cinematic work of Elvira Notari, the first woman film director in Italy. Visual artist Federica Foglia weaves together fragments from Elvira Notari’s films with orphan films, home movies, and images drawn from her own filmography, creating a cinematic collage that traverses different times, places, and memories.
In dialogue with these images, musician Silvia Cignoli performs live a score for electric guitar, electronics, and voice that evokes and transforms the emotional universe of Notari’s cinema.
Blending historical memory with critical imagination, the performance brings a sensitive and contemporary presence to the figure of the Neapolitan filmmaker, exploring the relationship between archive, loss, and the survival of images over time.
Produced by: AAMOD – Audiovisual Archive of the Workers’ and Democratic Movement, in collaboration with CSC – Cineteca Nazionale.
With the support of: National Committee for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Elvira Coda Notari
In collaboration with: Unarchive Found Footage Fest.
Glitch Interventions (HR/PL)
An audiovisual performance by artists from Format C and artists from the Intermediale Festival, produced as the outcome of festival workshops and residencies.
Format C is an independent, non-profit arts organization based in Zagreb, led by Dina and Vedran Gligo. It operates at the intersection of visual arts, new media experimentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration, developing projects grounded in the open exchange of knowledge and resources.
The collective focuses on practices such as databending, multimedia and hypermedia art, digital ecology, and transdisciplinary artistic activities carried out in collaboration with creators from diverse backgrounds. Format C is also engaged in organizing cultural events, promoting open-access education, and developing non-commercial models for art production and distribution.
Corprès (ES)
Corprès is the alter ego of the solo project of the multifaceted artist Joan Torné. He is a musician, composer, and performer. Based in Barcelona for the past 10 years, he is an active figure in the city's free improvisation and sound experimentation scene.
His work is based on a performative action where sonic and physical improvisation is the main premise. Through various electronic devices and movement as a means of communication and expression, his music is characterized by a cluster of analog synthesizers, contact microphones, circuit bending, and various effects. A sonic mass that intertwines with their body, creating a unique sonic and physical language. A voice of their own.
Their performance is free of form, structure, rhythm, and harmony. The chaotic sound that emerges from their setup is driven by the sensations of the moment, the space, and the audience. Freed from all norms, seeking the fine line between control, chaos, and the absurd. Creating parallels between an immeasurable sonic discharge and the deepest silence.
Using their mind and body line between control, chaos, and the absurd. Creating parallels between an immeasurable sonic discharge and the deepest silence. Using their mind and body in a visceral way and in the key of a protest scream, the performance culminates in a live show charged with energy and reflection, always different, ephemeral, and unique.
He has toured Europe and Mexico and has participated in various sound experimentation festivals both inside and outside the country. In terms of his discography, under this pseudonym, he has four works published in digital and cassette.
25.10.2026, 19.00
workshops and residencies
Exhibition
VIDEOSYNTEZY 4
23.10.2026 – 29.11.2026
Galeria Ring, Legnica
000_GXC (FI)
Petra Brnardić (HR)
Loris Cericola (IT)
Dan Chelger (AR)
CINEMA (DE)
Brent Coughenour (US)
Neil Ebbflo (US)
Georg Eckmayr (AT)
Rachel Efruss (US)
Rodrigo Faustini (BR)
David Fodel (US)
Andrew Frangella (US)
glitschen (DE)
Zsolt Gyenes (HU)
Alexander Hahn (PL)
Nate Hill (US)
Andrei Jay (US)
JesterN (IT)
Agamemnon Juunes (US)
CSKonopka (US)
Paloma Kop (US)
Eric Lennartson (US)
Matías Minguillón (AR)
Niemann // Ritzi (DK)
Joshue Ott (US)
Krzysztof Pawlik (PL)
Alan Powell (US)
Allen Riley (US)
Aaron F. Ross (US)
Benjamin Rosenthal (US)
Stochastic Reverie (SE/MX)
Sub Net (US)
Jae-Eun Suh (US)
Ariella Tai (US)
uoshi (BR)
Jeffu Warmouth (US)
Michał Wojna (Liberak) (PL)
Wendi Xi (CN)
Kit Young (US)
Zona Magnetica (PL)
Galeria Ring
Rynek 12
Legnica, Poland
workshops and residencies
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