Climate Protest Karaoke
Karaoke performance, workshop, concert
In our project, we have changed parts of the lyrics of popular songs so that they can help us cope with the negative emotions that we experience when facing the climate crisis. Hits that we hear on the radio usually tell about broken heart. Only a slight intervention, and they suddenly become protest songs that can help us handle the burden of our times. We reclaim the music that belongs to the commercialised, capitalist culture to give voice to our collective anger and shed our tears together with the Earth.
By singing the songs we have known from our teenage years, we transform nostalgia for the past youth into sadness for the now irreversible climate change.
The project debuted at the Forum of the Future of Culture in 2019 and was also presented as a part of art residency at the Department of Presence of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The project functions as a karaoke playlist on YT.


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Karaoke room, Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, Japan, 2023
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Selected song list:
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ABBA "S.O.S."
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Kayah & Bregovic "Ziemia jest w potrzebie"
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Britney Spears "Toxic"
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4 Non Blondes "What's Up"
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Gloria Gaynor "I Won't Survive"
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Shakira "Objection"
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Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball"
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Billie Eilish "Bad Guys"
Britney Spears - Toxic (song example playlist)
Baby, can't you see, I'm calling
Human like you should wear a warning
It's dangerous, we’re falling
There's no escape, I can't wait
We need to act, we should do it
You're dangerous, I loathe it
Too high
Can't come down
It’s getting hot
Nearly all year round -
Do you feel it now?
Our faith in the growth is killing us
You're toxic, we’re slippin' under
With a taste of a poison paradise
We’re addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
And I loath what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic?
It's getting late
To give you up
We took a sip
From the plastic cup
Slowly, it's taking over us
Oh,
The faith in the growth is killing us
You're toxic, we’re slippin' under
With a taste of a poison paradise
We’re addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
And I loath what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic?
Don't you know that you're toxic?
Taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic I'm slippin' under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
With the taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic I'm slippin' under
With a taste of the poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
Intoxicate me now
With your growing now
I think we’ve had enough

N:ear experimental and improvised music festival, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, 2022.