STEPHANIE HANNA: SPEAKING TO THE GHOSTS OF KALIYUGA
April 2026
Speaking to the Ghosts of Kaliyuga is a series of audio essays by Stephanie Hanna in which reflections on collective social crises are woven into a dynamic soundscape of ASMR-triggering field recordings drawing from urban, natural, and working environments. As tools for discernment in disorienting times, each episode weaves specific somatic grounding practices and body-mind awareness into reflections on different aspects of humanity’s current condition.
Archived audio: https://www.mixcloud.com/AFMixes/unframed-signals-02-stephanie-hanna-speaking-to-the-ghosts-of-kaliyuga/
In the first episode, rainset, the waters pour in various ways. Pluriharmonic wailing choruses and reinterpreted fragments of familiar tunes punctuate the stream of thought, which concludes with a somatic exploration of money as a force that might connect humanity — but for now largely divides it.
The concept of this series draws on ancient Hindu cosmology, specifically the concept of Kaliyuga, the age of dispute, decline, and warfare said to mark the final of four stages through which humanity must collectively pass. Hanna considers how orientation, clarity, and belief in collective possibility might be sustained amid confusion, conflict, and information overload — and finds a dramaturgical reference point in the body-mind practice of Yoga, which developed as salvation path from the pains of worldly existence for minds who are too busy to sit still in meditation.
Stephanie Hanna is an artist and social practitioner based in Berlin, Germany, whose work engages methods of participation and direct action in pursuit of social transformation. Her practice begins with close observation of everyday life, often extending outward through collaborative workshops and group inquiry. She is also trained as somatic movement pedagogue and teacher of the PranaYoga Method.
www.stephaniehanna.de