Radiant Center
Hans Kuzmich
Radiant Center is a four-channel sound installation created during a residency at the Nida Art Colony on the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose unique dune ecosystem is bisected by the Russian-Lithuanian border. The work draws from two months of field recording using radio receivers, hydrophones, and contact microphones to capture transmissions and vibrations propagating through sand, water, soil, trees, and border infrastructure, tracing how security apparatuses and environmental forces co-constitute this freighted terrain.
About the artist
Hans Kuzmich is a Belarus-born, Los Angeles-based artist working across transmission arts, media installation, and performance. His practice tunes into the acoustic and electromagnetic environments of borders and carceral sites, developing a trans, diasporic listening methodology oriented toward abolitionist horizons. Attending to the technical infrastructures and political and ecological networks that constitute each site, his work engages them speculatively across past, present, and future.
Kuzmich is currently completing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He holds an MFA from UCLA, a BFA from Cooper Union, and is a Whitney Independent Study Program alum. Recent exhibitions and residencies include Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Eco Media Festival, Los Angeles; Sonic Nomads, Seoul; SPAM New Media Festival, Seattle; Sound + Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England; Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Wave Farm, Acra, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; and SOMA, Mexico City.