Is a sonic-spatial performance that works as a concert or a journey, revolving around motifs of displacement, vital reconnection and life-sustaining musicality. Making present the persistence of struggle of a past-present-in-crisis, the performance  investigates the transformative and emancipatory potential of anticolonial poetry, asking how a practice of fugitivity, subversion and remembrance feels like, moves like, sounds like.

Composed for two simultaneous spaces—the binaural intimacy of radio transmission and the immersive field of the black box theater—the piece weaves spoken word, live electronics, inaudible frequencies, and the rhythmic dimensions of noise through the listener's body. This hybrid spatiality invites reconfigurations of the senses, spacetime, and his/tory, (un)worlding stories of a past to an anticipatory sense of listening.

This performance is part of a larger research trajectory that has been carrying foreground sounds, silences and noise, as carriers of a poetic-political argument with the potential of expanding, subverting and dislocating the linearity of space, time and language. 

CREDITS 

Concept, sound & performance: Paula Montecinos Oliva
Ambisonic sound design: Elisa Battistutta
Artistic advice: Flavia Pinherio
Advice in dramaturgy: Rodrigo Batista
Vocal coach: Veza Fernandez
Light design: Mirko Lazovic
Costume and table setup design: Richard Johnson 
Web design and flyer: Andy Dockett
Photography: Thomas Lenden
Conversation & research partner: Megan Hoetger.

With the kind support of
AFK 2022, IDlab, Wp Zimmer and Norma Funds.

Thanks to
Suzy Blok, Het Huis Utrecht, Elowise Vandenbroucke, IDLab, DAS Research.