Patti Smith’s Poetic Voice Mixes the Sounds of the Amazon’s Destruction for an Ongoing Collaboration

Crickets in Ibiza, traditional Georgian music, sounds of the Amazon River recently filled the cavernous Chelsea outpost of Kurimanzutto. Across sound pieces, eight two-channel films, mixed-media collages, drawings, and sculpture, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective contemplated our current environmental crisis through the lens of demise, rebirth, and chance.“I look at places that hold invisible stories and memories,” Soundwalk Collective founder Stephan Crasneanscki told ARTnews. Hi