OTUCHA
A BERLIN-BASED FLINTA+ VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Founded in 2022, the ensemble focuses on the phenomenon of voice, its healing and empowering qualities, and the transformative
power of collective singing. We combine artistic practice with social
engagement, creating spaces where people of different generations, backgrounds, and
experiences come together through voicing and listening.
OTUCHA draws on
Eastern European rural singing traditions as critical tools - historically
rooted in community care and emotional expression. We reclaim them
from nationalist narratives, moving towards feminist and decolonial perspectives.
Our practices include singing circles, workshops, public performances, musical
collaborations, and artistic research projects.
To give “otucha” is to lift up, to surround with encouragement and comfort.
Otucha is currently carried by Mina Đorđević, Magda Jaroszewicz, Kata
Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Kucharska, Julia Legeżyńska, Doro Michalak, Liene Šilde,
and Ola Zielińska. Former members: Paulina Miu Zielińska, Agnieszka Bułacik, Ewa Brokos.
WEBSITES:
otuchacollective.squarespace.com/
SoundCloud
Instagram /otucha_collective/
PERFORMANCES:
Conspiracy of Silence with MÛ MBANA. Performance at the opening of DESACTA Exhibition, SAVVY, Berlin, 2025
Ulga: entangled roots, shared feasts, collective resilience. Performance and collective sounding, SAVVY, Berlin, 2025
Polyphonic Ancestral Disco at Tanznacht Festival, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, 2025
Are you a modern girl? Rituals & Nowness. Performance at the opening of a group show, PUNTA Gallery, Sofia, 2025
OderHive by FrauVonD, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, 2025
Echoes of Shelters: A Performative Walk with Kharkiv by DOMIE Poznań, YermilovCentre & International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine, Poznań, 2024
Montag Modus, Archive of Futures III performative dinner, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, 2023
Boszki: On passages, feasts, and ancestral connections, Living Corridor Gallery, Berlin, 2023
Voices from the Forest, Enforested Memory Map by Kultura Kresu & Contact Zone, Białowieża Forest, 2023
Situated Ecologies by Sonic Tomorrow, Floating University, Berlin, 2023
RELEASES:
Dead in Devil's Paradise by La Herida (Que No Cierra)
INTERVIEWS:
Imagining futures through sounding together,
KAJET Journal
RADIO SHOWS:
Radiobook #18 conversations of sky and earth,
SAVVYZΛΛR
photo: otucha at punta gallery (2025)