Mohar Kalra stayed, lived and made his art at the Copper Leg Art Residency from January 6 to January 19, 2025.
Kalra’s project experimented with the sounds frozen water bodies make when struck with various materials, aiming to inform a performance on ice across Europe, reflecting on what we lose as climates change.
During his stay at Copper Leg Art Residency, Kalra explored ice in various environments, experimenting with the textures and sounds it produces to uncover its compositional potential.
” Specifically, I experimented on canals, bogs and lakes, some of which made better sounds than others (the lake was best, but it also depended significantly on how the ice had formed and if it had a layer of snow saturating it).
I also performed other material experiments on snow and ice, attempting to see what sound and impact would arise when water in a glass vessel freezes and cracks the glass, for example. I also experimented with the sounds and theatrical qualities of snow melting on a sauna heater. Snow and ice are inherently transient materials and I will use this material research to frame the performance I ultimately produce. “
Mohar Kalra: https://mkalra.me/
Artists’ creative journey was supported by Culture Moves Europe: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/creative-europe-culture-strand/culture-moves-europe
