Lea Luka Sikau & Denisa Pubalova
1 March 2025 – 11 November 2025
Denisa Pubalova and Dr. Lea Luka Sikau have collaborated as a duo since 2020, co-creating at the nexus of media arts and experimental sound. Their works have been commissioned by Ars Electronica Festival, Transmediale, Impakt, Ligeti Center, Earth Institute and Ensemble Modern.
Dr. Sikau, an artist-researcher with a PhD from Cambridge and a Fellow of Harvard University’s Mellon School for Performance Research, specializes in posthumanism and rehearsal ethnography. Having collaborated with luminaries like Romeo Castellucci, Rimini Protokoll and Marina Abramović, she currently works as curator for sound art at ZKM Hertzlab.
Denisa Pubalova, a media artist and creative coder, investigates environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and interspecies communication. Her work engages with technological infrastructures to craft visionary, post-anthropocentric narratives.
Project in residence
As we synch
To ‘digest’ the challenge of the Eating Life call, Lea Luka Sikau and Denisa Pubalova propose As we synch an artistic investigation that focuses on the vibroacoustic rhythms of fermentation: how we synchronise as we process and are processed.
During the residency, the artists will listen to sonified signals and gut sounds in private kitchens in Asturias, restaurants and laboratory environments, elaborating recurring patterns as their guts fill with evolving ferments. Both will train to attune their gastrointestinal tract to the roars, growls and murmurs of local nutraceutical foods.
Through the tactile experience offered by vibration motors, called activators, Lea Luka Sikau and Denisa Pubalova will rehearse to co-create a multi-sensory experience that synchronises the audience’s gut rhythms with the Asturian microbes.
