Murky Voices

Murky Voices attempts to interview Mur/Mura and hear its non-human stories on the move. The listening is entangled with swirling waves of human voices and perspectives on the presence and agency of the Mur river in Graz. Travelling sediments and sensations soaking with murky Mur water. Sometimes deafening noise, sometimes whispers in wet wrinkles. Bodies craving the immersion in cold fluid. Dams, vibrating bridges, storm canals. The quick silent shine of a kingfisher near Augarten.

Reza Kellner's photographs follow the movement of Mura and other bodies that cross paths with it. Instead of trying to freeze the shaking and oscillation, the photography embodies this movement as part of the creative process, bringing together temporality and the aspect of moving through space. The images evoke the feeling of passing by the river more than staring at it from a fixed position.

Anna Jurkiewicz's Letters of Mixed Feelings (2023) are sprouting, nourished by the river. Feelings understood as sensations, embodied signs, instincts and drives, entangled in interspecies and inter-object relationships. The polyphonic poem is an invitation to put out one's feelers toward non-human channels and voices caught from behind the human stream of consciousness.

Mur Soundwalk scores by Antuum, Lain Iwakura, Eva Ursprung, Chloé Ryo, Reza Kellner and Anna Jurkiewicz make up the core of this book, which is meant to be taken back to the river.