GusGus & Bjarki - Chernobyl

The performance part was shoot at the ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 media-art exhibition in 2019. Sounds of Chernobyl - Ukrainian project in which musicians write music using samples recorded in Chernobyl and welcome to visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as the inspirational trip. Icelandic artists GusGus and Bjarki released their Chernobyl-related songs this past October. Bjarki even managed to visit Chernobyl, given the opportunity, despite the global COVID-19 pandemic. His inspiration helped him create three tracks, one — together with GusGus. Music dedicated to Chernobyl is incredibly mesmerizing and imbued with the atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone. The Chernobyl disaster affected millions of people around the world. This is a complicated story, which is still painful to talk about, but any injury must be treated. Music and songs have always helped to feel and rethink. That is why the Ukrainian artist Valeriy Korshunov created the project "Sounds of Chernobyl" in 2018 as a part of an ARTEFACT art project with the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation's support. Thanks to musicians' work, this project helps to look differently at the history that has intertwined the lives of so many people and will forever remain the biggest human-made disaster on the world map, located just 100 kilometers from Kyiv.