14.2. — 9.3.2025

Monika Czyżyk & Neil Luck:
Almanach (Echoes) (2024)

Almanach (Echoes) is a collaboration between visual artist and filmmaker Monika Czyżyk and composer Neil Luck, bringing together musicians who transform natural materials into sound. The cast features Boris Müller, a German percussionist crafting instruments from stone, shell, and organic materials; Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga, a Bolivian composer inspired by traditional clay and wooden instruments; and Jürgen Essl, an acclaimed improvising pipe organist.

A hybrid mix of docu-fiction, music video, and experimental performance, the film interweaves staged and impromptu encounters across multiple landscapes. These musicians become nodes between traditions, histories, craft practices, and nations, connecting through the elemental forces of stone, wood, air, bamboo, shell, and clay. Their performances unfold like a hypnotic, shamanic dance, where bodies, landscapes, and sound resonate in ever-expanding echoes.

Shot across Germany, the UK, Finland, and Sweden in 2023–2024, the film employs a variety of formats—4K digital, 8mm, 360-degree video, 3D lidar scans, and digital animation—blurring the line between the tangible and the digital. Similarly, its sonic world merges documentary, field recordings, voice messages, sampled dance music, foley, and electronic soundscapes, creating a fluid interplay between organic and synthetic sound.

More than a film, Almanach exists as a living, evolving body of work—leading to live performances in galleries, music festivals, and studios, where musicians, filmmakers, and collaborators bring its themes into real-time expression.

At its core, Almanach (Echoes) explores how human technologies—ancient and modern—collide, resonate, and create new ways of experiencing sound, space, and presence. It is an attempt to manifest joy, connection, and transformation beyond language.

Almanach (echoes) 2024 – ongoing 

🪶(b. 1989, PL) & 🍀(b. 1982, GB) – their tentacular practice transforms stones, sticks, clay, leaves welcoming zones of collective being. Works shown at Survival Kit 15,  Floating University, Heidelberger Kunstverein Akademie Schloss Solitude, Malmö Konstmuseum, Titanik, NTS, Colourscape and Accidental Records.

Monika Czyżyk is a Polish visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She works with dirty media: moving images, VR and clay within the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects. Monika collects clay from a variety of places and uses it to create spiritually driven clay window paintings. Her working methodology is divided into travel-led and site-specific research and studio practices based on Vartiosaari Island in Helsinki, where she is part of the Vartiosaari Island association. She considers the island as an active partner and collaborator in all her projects. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals including Malmö Konstmuseum, Sequences biennial, Reykjavik, Sinne gallery, Helsinki, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, and Floating University, Berlin.

Neil Luck is a composer and performer based in London. His work explores the pathos between live performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as curious, weird, useful, or spectacular in and of itself. He has presented work internationally at Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (NYC), Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo, and the Tokyo Experimental Festival. His music is released on labels including Entr’acte, Nonclassical, and Accidental Records.


Mediabox is Forum Box gallery’s space dedicated to media art. The program is created in collaboration with AV-arkki.

There are three steps to the media art space Mediabox, but the work is also available for viewing on a tablet by request. Please don’t hestitate to contact our staff if Mediabox is inaccessible for you.