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Intermediality And Text-to-Sound Transmutations. Interview with Maria Vilkovisky and Ruthia Jenrbekova of krëlex zentre (2025)

Vadim Keylin
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Maria Vilkovisky is a poetess, musician, artist, and curator born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Kazakh State Conservatory as a violist, worked in the opera house orchestra, studied at the “Musagethes” literary school for writers in Almaty and at the curatorial summer school in Moscow. She is co-founder of a long-term para-institutional project called Krëlex zentre (together with Ruthia Jenrbekova), and from 2011–2014 she ran an art space in Almaty. She lives and works in Almaty and Vienna. Ruthia Jenrbekova is an artist and researcher from Almaty, Kazakhstan. She holds an MA in ecology and works as an intermedia cultural organizer. She is co-founder of Krëlex zentre together with Maria Vilkovisky. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and lives and works in Almaty and Vienna. Her fields of interest: queer ecology, material semiotics, arts-based methodologies, transfeminism. Krëlex zentre is a paranormal art institution that builds on cultural traditions of intermixed planetary diasporas, develops inclusive aesthetics, and promotes queer cosmo-politics. This interview by poet and Sound Studies scholar Vadim Keylin took place from March to April 2024 via Google Docs and has been edited for clarity. Literature references were added during the editing process.
typeresearch exposition
date12/05/2024
published03/04/2025
last modified03/04/2025
statuspublished
copyrightVadim Keylin, Maria Vilkovisky, Ruthia Jenrbekova
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2800315/2800316
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.2800315
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue27. Issue 27


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