Open Call: Share your Experience with Eco-Grief and Eco-Anxiety

We invite you to join a series of conversations on ecological grief and climate anxiety. Your voice and lived experience will become part of an artistic project by Sikau/Pubalova.

What happens within us when we consume daily news about the climate crisis and environmental disasters? How do these complex messages affect us – caught between fears of the future and our own capacity to act, between collective activism and political powerlessness?  

WHO YOU’LL MEET

The international artist duo Sikau/Pubalova. Each conversation lasts 40–60 minutes and simply explores your lived experience with ecological grief, climate anxiety, or dissonant feelings in response to the climate crisis – whatever you’re comfortable sharing. 

WHEN & WHERE

1 and 2 December 2025, at Kunsthalle Praha in Prague (in person).

YOUR COMFORT & PRIVACY

You can speak Czech or English, choose what feels best. Conversations will be audio-recorded for artistic research and purpose only. Your identity will not be revealed: voices will be blended/anonymized in a sound composition.

WHAT WE OFFER IN RETURN

As a thank-you, you’ll receive €25 and two complimentary exhibition tickets to Kunsthalle Praha. You’ll also be warmly invited to the opening of the exhibition, where your contribution will be part of the artwork.

HOW TO APPLY (IT’S SIMPLE)

Email us a short note (max. 150 words) about you and why you’d like to take part. Please add one sentence on how you’d describe your own voice – is it soft, low, raspy or high? 
 
No previous art or science background is needed – just your voice and experience.

Please send your message to exhibitions@kunsthallepraha.org and include the subject line: “Ecological Grief – Open Call.” To join, you’ll need to be available on 1–2 December 2025.  

DEADLINE

10 November 2025

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 

The international duo Sikau/Pubalova formed in 2020, made up of artist, coder and researcher Denisa Pubalova (CZ) and artist-researcher and mezzosoprano Dr. Lea Luka Sikau (DE). Ever since, they curiously explore the intersection of media art and experimental opera. Commissioned by the European Commission, Science Gallery Bangalore, Ars Electronica Festival, LABoral and Transmediale Berlin, their installations invite humorous-tragic reflections on societal shifts. Multisensory immersion in smells, vibration and sound invites audiences to attune to their senses beyond the visual, and to step into an uncanny playground. 

Denisa Pubalova (she/her) is a media artist, a researcher on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures, and a critical coder fascinated by interspecies communication and post-anthropocentric narratives. Dr. Lea Luka Sikau (she/her) was Harvard University’s Mellon School Fellow for Performance Research and holds a PhD on posthumanism opera rehearsal from the University of Cambridge. As a media artist and stage director, she focuses on post-Anthropocentrism, having worked with artists such as Romeo Castellucci, Marina Abramović, and Rimini Protokoll. She is the curator for sound art and music at the Center for Art and Media, ZKM, in Germany.