Agnieszka Bulacik is a Polish artist, researcher and facilitator based in Barcelona. Her practice integrates voice, sound and performance to create immersive experiences that engage the senses and challenge dominant narratives. Rooted in queer-feminist, ecological, and decolonial perspectives, her work explores how art can be a tool for healing, resistance, and reimagining how we relate to each other and the Earth. Agnieszka studied visual arts, yet over time her practice has expanded into more experiential, ephemeral and intangible forms – performance, voice, and sound – media that opens new portals into the body, memory, and collective experience.
Agnieszka is fascinated by the power of sound, voice and song. How can they support us in shifting from the cognitive paradigm into sensing and feeling? How can they help us create new forms of solidarity? How can we learn to listen deeply? Also to the songs of our more-than-human kin, our dreams and fears?
During her stay on board Godzilla Agnieszka will be learning to listen to the waves and the wind. She wants to learn sailing and offer songs and prayers to the waters. Sea levels are currently rising by about 3-4 mm a year, to Agnieszka learning how to be with the water means learning how to live and love in a time of collapse. She wants to learn how the sea can lull us to sleep, what the wind sings as it dances with the waves and what they communicate. She wants to listen to the song of Godzilla and hear its sounds and stories. Having just returned from Ukraine, Agnieszka is also curious to explore the meaning and story of the siren — both as a mythological non-binary creature whose songs supposedly led sailors astray, and as a piercing sound used to alert people to danger and emergencies.
“My first encounter with the Baltic Sea, was also my first encounter with a sea, with big waters. I fell into it. Now I feel it was a strong hug. A welcoming hug. As soon as I saw the sea I started walking towards it hypnotised. I must have been 4 years old. And I did not know how to swim. All my clothes were wet and I needed to wear my dads T-shirt not to walk naked around the city. Baltic was summer, being in the water until you are blue from the cold, catching jellyfish.”