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Sound art and performance workshop with Fabiana Vinagre
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2021
https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/equipo1517-21
How do you listen to the Museum? A priori, this question may lead us to anatomy, to the act of listening exclusively directed to sound and hearing, but listening has more to do with a conversation than with the isolated act. Listening to a space implies giving it life, perceiving its vibrations, underworlds and resonances, which are returned to our bodies. Listening is not a passive act: it implies walking, seeing from different points and lenses, activating a sonar more than a hearing, listening to the walls, the voices, the images, the memories, the futures.
In this edition of equipo1517 -a research and creation laboratory for a stable group of 10 teenagers from 15 to 17 years old- we start from practices of estrangement of the senses to stimulate non-verbal communication and listening to the body, to other people and to the Museum. Through the exchange of perceptions and experiences, we work on non-daily ways of inhabiting space and the limits between the concepts of human, nature and technology, guided mainly by listening in its multiple forms.
During the eight meetings that make up the proposal, both in February and October, Yuri Tuma and Fabiana Vinagre make use of tools developed in their performances to, together with the1517 team, build shared stories based on disorientation, the search for new ways of communicating and the action of mapping the space. The objective is to produce sound tours of the Museum and its surroundings through the soundscape, the voice and other bodily sounds, the crossing of different technologies and everything that can emerge in the time we spend together.
Yuri Tuma and Fabiana Vinagre, in their collective creation process, propose the hybridization between performance, writing and sound art. Their first action took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid with the work Paronomía (2018), which tried to create relationships and expanded listening in a shared and random reading, to subvert the usual way of reading a book approaching the corporeal. Since that experiment they have worked other ways of relating the body, the word, space and poetry, as in the case of ¡Oye, mira! (La Juan Gallery, Madrid, 2019), a listening, reading and writing action in which hearing and vision were deprived, and Poesías Cartográficas (Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, 2020), a work inspired by concrete poetry and the practice of transducing sound into word, form, movement and space.
In this edition of equipo1517 -a research and creation laboratory for a stable group of 10 teenagers from 15 to 17 years old- we start from practices of estrangement of the senses to stimulate non-verbal communication and listening to the body, to other people and to the Museum. Through the exchange of perceptions and experiences, we work on non-daily ways of inhabiting space and the limits between the concepts of human, nature and technology, guided mainly by listening in its multiple forms.
During the eight meetings that make up the proposal, both in February and October, Yuri Tuma and Fabiana Vinagre make use of tools developed in their performances to, together with the1517 team, build shared stories based on disorientation, the search for new ways of communicating and the action of mapping the space. The objective is to produce sound tours of the Museum and its surroundings through the soundscape, the voice and other bodily sounds, the crossing of different technologies and everything that can emerge in the time we spend together.
Yuri Tuma and Fabiana Vinagre, in their collective creation process, propose the hybridization between performance, writing and sound art. Their first action took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid with the work Paronomía (2018), which tried to create relationships and expanded listening in a shared and random reading, to subvert the usual way of reading a book approaching the corporeal. Since that experiment they have worked other ways of relating the body, the word, space and poetry, as in the case of ¡Oye, mira! (La Juan Gallery, Madrid, 2019), a listening, reading and writing action in which hearing and vision were deprived, and Poesías Cartográficas (Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, 2020), a work inspired by concrete poetry and the practice of transducing sound into word, form, movement and space.