by Filip Preis
Zosia Hołubowska (1988, Olsztyn, Poland) is a Vienna-based sound artist, queer music activist, researcher, and producer. They work on topics of queering archives, healing practices, and interspecies intimacy. They create performances, sound installations, and radio works and compose soundscapes for dance performances. They are a member of a feminist collective Oramics. Holubowska is also a founder of Sounds Queer?, a collective working on the intersection of electronic music, sound art, and queer activism.
Their solo project Mala Herba is deeply rooted in Slavic traditions, magic, and demonology. Mala Herba’s songs explore the darker side of club music, blending demonic disco with EBM.
In 2023 they released the album Singing Warmia on the Hungarian electronic music label Exiles. Singing Warmia is an attempt to deal with the lack of family archives and the inability to establish a relationship with the place of birth. Instead of family stories, the album's material is photos of the artist's favorite places around Olsztyn (the capital city of the Warmia region), which were sonified using processes designed by the artists.
They have performed at Mumok (Vienna, AT) and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, ES), among other places, and their project Community of Grieving recorded together with Julia Giertz was presented at Unsound 2020 (Kraków, PL) and has its live premiere at Unsound 2021 (Kraków, PL), Elevate Festival 2022 (Graz, AU) and Dark Mofo 2023 (Tasmania, AUS).
contact:
zosia [dot] holubowska [at] gmail [dot] com
concert booking:
klaudia [at] granko [dot] agency