Homo et Bestia
Judith Sönnicken and Diana Policarpo will develop a collaborative sound work with the aim of punctuating processes and actors involved in the sound geography of the São João da Serra area. Starting from sound researches that include recordings of the artists’ interaction with human and non-human inhabitants, they will create scores and notations that document and generate their involvement in local activity. These scores will not only become your project file, they will also serve as the basis for your final live performance. The archive to be formed will give visibility and audibility to the social and geographic transitions within the ecosystem, from the oral traditions of the past to the sound carpets composed today.
Judith Sönnicken is a German artist who works in what she calls “dimensional athleticism, plasticity of memory and primitive immersion.” What constitutes corporeality and how does it communicate with the environment? In her site-specific work “Immersive 4D matrices” Sönnicken put visitors within the mental architecture of geographic locations. His work “Magic Capes” are textile circles of empowerment, surrounding “selves”, making the interface between ancient cosmological symbolism and contemporary materials. In his last piece, “Google Gardening” used Virtual Reality to invade privatized environments in Silicon Valley.In 2017, she co-founded Befriending Hyper Objects, a performative interaction with hyper objects in digital and analog space.
Diana Policarpo is a Portuguese visual artist and composer, who lives and works between London (UK) and Lisbon (Portugal). She is a graduate of Goldsmiths College with a Masters in Fine Arts, 2013. With her work, she investigates power relations, popular culture, and gender politics, juxtaposing the rhythmic structure of sound as tactile material within the social construction of esoteric ideology. In addition to her solo work, the artist collaborates regularly with Orquestra Scratch, Hákarl, Áine O’Dwyer, AAS, Cabiria, Erinyese, and Orquestra Intonadores Ruídos Futuristas. Diana Policarpo was recently announced as the winner of the 2019 EDP New Artists Award.
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