Hanna Launikovich
Hanna Launikovich is a performance and sound artist of Belarusian origin. Based in Frankfurt am Main, she holds an MA in Choreography and Performance from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies. Since 2018, Hanna Launikovich has engaged with interdisciplinary documentary practices. Her work moves between sound, performance, and the unresolved. She focuses primarily on themes such as trauma, nostalgia, and isolation, exploring them through immersive sound environments, field recordings, vocal improvisations, lo-fi textures, and performance scores. For her, sound is not merely accompaniment: operating at the intersection of composition and improvisation, and of archive and immediacy, Hanna’s practice crystallizes the core questions of her work — how sound performs memory, and how memory performs through sound. Since 2023, Hanna has composed and performed for theater productions and integrated sound into her own performances and multidisciplinary art projects. Her work has been presented in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, and Estonia.
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About the research “she-zoo/schizo/ШЫЗА“ addresses one of the most underreported ongoing human rights crises in Europe: the systematic imprisonment and torture of female political dissidents in Belarus. Since the attempted revolution of 2020–2021, people continue to be detained and labeled extremists for social media posts and likes. Their testimonies exist — in human rights reports, in Belarusian- and Russian-language media — but remain almost entirely invisible in European public discourse. The memory fades while the reality persists.
Working with the testimonies of female political prisoners, Hanna Launikovich will investigate how political violence inscribes itself onto the body — not only the bodies of those imprisoned, but the bodies of those who fled, who stayed silent, who read the accounts from European cities and feel the ground shift. The research will focus on translating this overlap into choreographic and sonic language — developing sound, exploring spatial restriction as a performative condition, and building toward a work-in-progress showing that brings this heartbreaking reality onto the stage.
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