Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain explore how the force of war imprints itself into land. Using seismic data recorded during missile strikes and explosions in regions such as Kharkiv and Kherson, recordings from the moment of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, environmental phenomena such as earthquakes in Chernihiv and Poltava regions, as well as daily baseline readings from Poltava, they translate this violence into vibration and sound — layering inaudible yet physically impactful low-frequency waves, sonic winds and frequency pools, dense drones, voice, and high frequency textures. Mark works with the architecture of the building, treating the building’s structure as a resonating instrument, while Khrystyna uses her voice with a throat mic and audified seismic recordings to create a vibrasonic experience of being engulfed by the earth.

»The Core,« unfolds as a journey through five acts, descending from the surface into the depths of the ground. Each act, or layer, evokes not just geological shifts, but emotional ones — asking us to listen with our bodies to the imprints of violence that infuse the soil. Sound resonates through walls, through bodies, through memory.