Helena Krobath

Helena Krobath was born in Matsqui after their family immigrated from various parts of Eastern Europe to Manitoba and British Columbia in the 1930s and 1950s. Krobath now lives in unceded territories known as Vancouver, where she works with sound and visual arts, transforming field recordings and homemade instruments with digital software and experimenting with place-based experiences, especially soundwalking and immersive play. Krobath also does sound design for the award-nominated Invisible Institutions Podcast, teaches in the field of Communication, and facilitates community-based arts exploration. They are particularly interested in how narratives are created not only with words but with our senses, movement, and arrangement of space.