SAND by Dr. Cell

Within this research we respond to the problem of how climate catastrophe, rooted in extractive and humancentric logics, numbs our capacity to feel with our environments. Climate grief is present yet often disavowed; our habitual ways of sensing, naming, and narrating the more-than-human world keep us at a distance instead of in relation. We ask how these inherited perceptual structures block climate justice and equal, nurturing relations with human and more-than-human environments. It takes courage to persist. Through staying with climate grief, we yearn for climate joy.

30´ structured improvisation with Richard Hronský (festival JAMA 79, Banská Štiavnica, SK, 18.10. 2025)

A sonic-poetic piece that unified themes of grains of sand, funerals, and local (sound) ecology of mining and woodcutting. It is Celestina's non-verbal vocal performance inspired by site-specific explorations of drtiftinf sand at Terschelling (NL) and the vocal techniques of artist Meredith Monk, who responds to these themes through her voice. Together, we recontextualized them in the manner of concert arias in the form of electro-acoustic lifts (fujara + computer) from the album Pohreb, which was recently released on mappa editions by Richard Hronský.

60´ "odd-instruments" improvisation with Romana Klementis (HKU location Janskerkhof - Grote Zaal, Utrecht, NL, 18.11. 2025)

Sound-movement improvisation with "odd-instrument" - The Drifting Sand Tubes. Exploration of sound-movement possibilities and possibilities of visual scoring for choreography.

Exploring sand grain by grain. The perception of sand as a whole would not be possible without a grain. The pereption of a grain would not be possible without a sand as a whole. Where will these observations take us?

120´ "odd-instruments" improvisation with Romana Klementis and Eve Rhodes (Royal Conservatoire The Hague - Den Haag, NL, 24.11. 2025)

Sound-movement improvisation with "odd-instrument" - The Drifting Sand Tubes. Expanded explorations of sound-movement-voice possibilities and possibilities of visual scoring for choreography and vocal piece.

Exploring human-sand relations.

Is it possible for a human to get rid of a grain of sand? And if yes, what happens next?

20´ structured improvisation with Martin Kosorín and Romana Klementis (Gg(ghay) session in Kunstbar, Den Haag, NL, 24.10. 2025)

The second variation of structured improvisation inspired by site-specific explorations of drifting sand at Terschelling (NL).

The first exploration of improvising with a dancer, which empowered further curiosity about this method of work.

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