Serbo-Croatian artist Manja Ristić has developed a multifaceted practice as a sound artist, violinist, composer, poet, curator, and researcher, connecting the open field of improvisation to the domain of electroacoustic work, composition, listening, and place, with a particular focus on the use of field recordings as a means of revealing ecological, social, and political memories embedded in the landscape.
paper cuts may be one of Ristić’s most personal and most intimate works so far, drawing older and recent works into one resonant surface. It was made alongside the years she raised an autistic child. “paper cuts – wound longer, hurt deeper, annoyingly and stubbornly open and reopen, and reopen again with every attempt to heal them. Lullaby for the restrained world, for children that
