Power Manual / Weight Extra

Berlin-based poet Łukasz Polowczyk, Swiss musician Daniel Jakob, and American filmmaker Emma Baiada present Power Manual / Weight Extra, a collaborative work treating translation as a generative act across film, sound, and text.

The project uses an iterative translation process—poem → soundscape →video → poem → sound—as its primary method, treating collaboration and intermedial exchange as tools for generating new forms of knowledge. Moving between these shifting forms, ideas don't remain stable: they gain new inflections, shed others, accumulate unexpected resonances.

Through these forms, the work engages with surveillance, loss of control, climate change, and the unequal distribution of power. It poses the question: what is the weight of our actions, individual and collective, and what is the legacy of what we leave behind?

The project was first presented at Kurt Kurt Project Space in Berlin, where visitors navigated between physical spaces and different media, tracking how a gesture in film becomes an articulation in sound, how a phrase migrates from voice to typographical rendition of poem on wall to recording. The work shows its own making—offering not explanation but evidence of translation as transformation.

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Screenings:

Kurt Kurt Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2026

Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO, 2025