Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a Czech artist, curator, poet, and musician living in Berlin. In her practice, she explores trauma's influence on identity, limits of intimacy, and hollows in communication. Her projects are often collaborative and rooted in critical theory, mainly in speculative feminism and post-colonial theory.

Among her recent projects is Body.x(n), one of its iterations has been performed as the feature at How Long Is Forever #7. Body.x(n) considers potentiality and change in relation to a body capable of becoming pregnant, to abortion, and to the limits of language when it comes to appearing and disappearing of matter. The piece is a poem/a score for six voices/an audio recording/a participatory performance for six voices freely interpreting text accompanied by improvised synthesized music by John Broback. Its recording also exists as an audio piece featuring a soundscape by the Seattle-based musician slowfoam. On which the Berlin-based film maker Imogene Mansfield based her movie of the same name.

Body.x(n) has been first recorded as part of another project, There Is a Place in My Body, that Härtelova conceived at her artistic residency at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.There Is a Place in My Body was a project of conversations with local women around making sense of femme-related bodily changes, such as menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, sexual transition, menopause, aging, illness. This socially engaged art project then materialized as a cassette featuring sound pieces, interviews, and other recordings, accompanied by a zine. The cassette will be freely available to be copied at the Anchorage Museum, or to be purchased by audience from elsewhere and institutions under copyrights online this spring.

Between exhibition making in places like Prague, Amman, and Anchorage, Härtelova is currently very active as part of her lightbush project. This "poetry band" is a continuation of her collaboration with John Broback creating capturing performances combining spoken word, synthesized music, and visual performance art.

Lastly, Härtelova is also part of a dream-pop music group Magda & the Aliens whose new music video has just been released.

If you want to know more about or contact Magdalena, you can check out her website and follow her on Instagram at @mjhartelova