Henriett Pálházy & Maria Magdalena Kozłowska
Henriett Pálházy is an Amsterdam-based performance maker and sound artist whose practice operates within performance art and experimental vocal theatre, focusing on the voice as a site where language, sound, and acting intersect. She develops performances in which language is pushed toward its limits through repetition, distortion, and saturation, combined with theatrical gestures that produce states where meaning begins to fracture. Drawing on sonic and theatrical structures, she stages situations that foreground the instability of communication and the affective force of the voice.
She has also been experimenting with the genre of radio play since her studies at the Institution of Sonology, as the medium allows both theatricality and sonic investigation. Her live-act radio play Cheap Thrills is an absurdist audio play about hazy emotional states and landscapes, embodied by vocalist and actress Maria Magdalena Kozłowska.
Regarding her own practice, Maria Magdalnea is a singer, theatre maker, and writer living and working in Amsterdam. Her performances portray singing women and sonic utopias. She often collaborates with classical musicians and opera singers, examining the performance of music as well as the affective labour of the singing voice. She also researches the entanglement of voice and landscape, building temporary stages in nature and public spaces.
