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Routine Maintenance: A Tale
Lower Levant Company & Olga Micińska

Thkio Ppalies is pleased to present Routine Maintenance: A Tale, a sculptural sound environment by Lower Levant Company (Emiddio Vasquez & Peter Eramian) and Olga Micińska. At the core of the installation two existing works are brought into conversation: Crossover Frequency Spectrum (2024, LLC in collaboration with Gaetano di Gregorio) and Bad Luck to Every Magistrate, and Bad luck to Every Gamekeeper (2026, LLC & Olga Micińska), previously presented at the 60th Venice Biennale Cyprus Pavilion (@forever.informed) and the @sonicacts Biennial in Amsterdam, respectively.

The title of the exhibition cites the official statement by the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) authorities regarding the ongoing developments at Akrotiri Salt Lake, where locals are protesting plans to erect as many as 68 new communications antennae, describing them as “antennae of death”. According to the statement, any work currently ongoing is “associated with routine maintenance” and not with plans to install new listening antennae. So the tale goes…

Opening: 16/10/2026, 7pm
Duration: 16/10 – 06/11/2026
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday, 6-8pm (or by appointment)

Poster by Olga Micińska
Photo by Haris Nicolaou taken in Θκιό Ππαλιές - Thkio Ppalies by @o_o.m__m

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11 days ago

Bad luck to every magistrate, and bad luck to every gamekeeper (2026)

Lower Levant Company in collaboration with Olga Micińska (@o_o.m__m).

Wood, metal, insulation foam, transducer speakers, locking pins. Audio, Stereo, 10min loop with number intermissions.

Two wooden resonant structures – modelled on the interiors of bat houses and resembling ritual contraptions – transmit a soundscape composed of roosting bats, a fictional number station, and ELF radio recordings captured in Cyprus near the British RAF bases in Akrotiri, Limassol, and Troodos. RAF Akrotiri served as the transmission locus for a number station allegedly operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service (1960–2008) to send encoded messages across the region. Discovered by radio enthusiasts, the station opened each broadcast with a jingle from the English folk song The Lincolnshire Poacher. The project’s title reframes a couplet from this song as an omen aimed at the ‘magistrates’ and ‘gamekeepers’ active on the island and in the surrounding region, while fictionalising coded numbers through local land histories.

Bats bridge the non-human world with their environment through echolocation, embodying an ecological ‘call and response’, prompting a reconsideration of how we engage with transmission technologies and their ecological consequences. Their calls reinterpret Cyprus’s geopolitical radio history as an ‘antenna island’ shaped by surveillance and eavesdropping. These sonic abodes propose a symbolic reinhabitation of bat colonies near the bases, subverting RAF infrastructures and inviting listeners to imagine rebuilding after misfortune befalls the ‘magistrates’ and ‘gamekeepers’.

Presented at @sonicacts biennial 2026: Melted for Love, curated by Angeliki Tzortzakaki (@paradise_host). taken in W139 by @o_o.m__m

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7 months ago

Olga Micińska
~ The Broken Pitcher ~
de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17.01–20.03.2026, 14:00–20:00

A project by Natascha Sade Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, Peter Eramian

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Raissa Angeli, Dimitris Chimonas, Stelios Kallinikou, Athina Kassiou, Orestis Lambrou, Orestis Lazouras, Olga Micińska, Panagiotis Mina (Pyrgatory Studios), Faysal Mroueh, Keti Papadema, Nayia Savva, Nikos Stephou, Maria Toumazou, Rumen Tropchev, Emiddio Vasquez

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The project traces the effects of financialisation and austerity attending to a concrete case: a crucial meeting at a bank, negotiating the foreclosure of a family home in Larnaca, Cyprus in 2019. “The Broken Pitcher” looks at the banking system and the potentials for changing the script of interacting with it.

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Olga Micińska contributed to the project two sculptures:

This Too Shall Pass, 2025, mud bricks, concrete sculpture, 60 x 42 x 24 cm

We Flew in Mud, 2025, wood, metal, clock mechanism, Ø 90 x 8 cm

📸 Peter Eramian, 2026

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@o_o.m__m @de_appel @petereramian #olgamicinska #deappel #thebrokenpitcher #groupshow #amsterdam taken in de Appel by @o_o.m__m

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7 months ago

“Bad luck to every magistrate, and bad luck to every gamekeeper “
With Lower Levant Company (LLC)

Now on view at W139, as part of the Sonic Acts Biennial

Happy to see these bathouses hanging but most of all happy with the whole collaboration with LLC (Emiddio Vasquez and Peter Eramian).

It has been a ride through many time zones, temporalities, territories, materialities and bat caves.
Many alignments.

Thank you for this invitation and for the process, Peter and Emiddio ❣️

Thanks also to everyone without whom it wouldn’t come together: Angeliki, Radina, Otakar, Tije, Andre, Martijn, Seamus and the whole Sonic Acts team! by @o_o.m__m

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8 months ago

I continuously operate on the brink of the disciplines of art and craft, and as much as related - they are not the same. I work as a sculptor and as a carpenter. These two domains have their own particular rules, rhythms, methods and perspectives. So I let them feed each other. I used to think that I would have to choose one or the other, but after having functioned in this hybridised way for a while, I see that it is not necessary and that I would never want to limit myself to one of them. It is that combination that allows me for a very prolific way to be, to travel, to think. This niche in between establishes who I am and how I enter the conversation.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Olga Micińska
@o_o.m__m

To read the interview, see link in bio.

#tique #tiqueart #olgamicińska #sixquestions #architecture #artisticresearch #ceramics #conceptualart #drawing #installation #photography #sculpture #textile #artistinterview #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryartpublication #artpublication by @o_o.m__m

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a year ago

Beautiful experience of community building at the Ateliers del Bosc association in Vaour. Four days of hand hewing, carving, earth building, and lifting things together. An important case in point of how to raise alternative systems of support and a flow of knowledge through the physical process of artisanal construction. So many heartwarming encounters. Was super fun to join this festival in the company of Ania Siekierska @siekiera_anna [last pic- sweet Ludivine’s drawing of yours truly carving an axe handle on a shaving horse] by @o_o.m__m

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a year ago

“Journeylass crops” just found a new long term home at Common Knowledge in Co. Clare, Ireland (a social enterprise teaching people about building own homes and encouraging them to do so, alongside sharing knowledge on all sorts of vernacular crafts).
Very happy, and very moved by this.
A commission for 40th EVA International guest programme curated by Sebastian Cichocki titled “The Gleaners Society” and using the act of gleaning as a metaphor for social participation, the work was made and installed together with Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, fellow artist and woodworker.
“Journeylass crops” was originally presented at the wonderful Ormston House in Limerick. Somehow I never shared these pictures here because I’ve been just going through a (ongoing) phase of ig ennui. But I’ll do it now because it deserves to be shared!
Thank you all without whom it would not have happened: Sebastian, Mathild, Matt, Ailbhe, Eimear, Niamh, Helena, Harrison, Zach, Cian, Fionn, Sinead, Teresa, Olan, Micheal, and importantly: Instytut Adama Mickiewicza and the Embassy of Poland in Ireland.
Also, thank you, Philemina for your sunshine. taken in County Clare by @o_o.m__m

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2 years ago

Diving deep into our pargetting research after 1,5 years of conversation, skill-sharing, and funding writing. With sweet friends and collaborators @sophiasimensky and @o_o.m__m All the work is by @pargetterbill. Grateful for the support @stimuleringsfonds by @o_o.m__m

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2 years ago

For “The Gleaners Society” - guest programme of the 40th EVA International, curated by Sebastian Cichocki - we built a playful timber frame together with Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven. We will show it at the Ormston House.

Gleaners’ arms; entry gate into the field; collecting scattered knowledges

Opening 31st August 2023 in Limerick, IE taken in Limerick, Ireland by @o_o.m__m

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3 years ago

“Unfinished business”
Truly unfinished yet conceived at the most wonderful Pluktuin van Geesje @pluktuinvangeesje

For the Postartistic Assembly curated by Sebastian Cichocki @sebastian.cichocki and Marianna Dobkowska @marianna.dobkowska

Polish Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale @gwangjubiennale

Made possible by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza @culture_pl by @o_o.m__m

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3 years ago

“Waterhole”
Portable fountain of fermented liquid made with farming tools found in Gwangju

A sweet collaboration with Pola Sutryk @pola.su

For the Postartistic Assembly curated by Sebastian Cichocki and Marianna Dobkowska

Polish Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea

Made possible by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza

Photos:
1. Centrala @centrala_architects
2. yours truly
3. yours truly
4. Sebastian Cichocki @sebastian.cichocki taken in Gwangju Biennale - 광주비엔날레 by @o_o.m__m

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3 years ago

“Waterhole”
Portable fountain of fermented liquid made with farming tools found in Gwangju

A sweet collaboration with Pola Sutryk @pola.su

For the Postartistic Assembly curated by Sebastian Cichocki and Marianna Dobkowska

Polish Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea

Made possible by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza

Photography by Przemysław Krompiec taken in Gwangju, South Korea by @o_o.m__m

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3 years ago