Sonic Creatures, 2021-2022

Inspired by the essay "Sonic Creatures" by Francisco Lopez, I consider sound as something that exists by itself, capable of generating new acoustic situations through geographical movements, highlighting existing, ignored or unnoticed territories. Through the integration and germination of other acoustic situations in foreign lands, I want to show the political possibilities of sound. Through the study of the ethics of presence, based on the recognition of the Other and co-existence with the Other in unpredictable conditions, I am looking for uninhibited, inspiring ways of further existence on Earth.

The main idea of the project is to recognize the Other as a sound through the hijacking of space. The journey of a sound that originated(recorded) in one place and was discovered in another geographical place is associated with the problems of migration, overcoming distances, an attempt to show the ambiguity of boundaries, to go beyond and recognize the blurriness, the multidimensionality of existing spaces. Through the recognition of the Other, I would also like to draw attention to the existence of possible worlds that for some reason(political, ethical, economic, etc.) are still not formulated or still unthinkable.

Will we be able to avoid the favorite approaches of the colonizers in the search for new habitable places? How will the long-developed territories that we will find sound? Will we hear the soil that we have lost? And how deep will we have to dig to get home? I put all these questions before myself continuing collecting a sound archive of field recordings from around the world and moving the sound through continents and countries, in an attempt to pronounce the territories in which it was located and construct new meanings in the spaces where it landed.

Cafunzinho - sound object, sound from Austria to Brazil, 00:40 | intervention, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, 2021

tiu - sound object, sound from new zeland to St.Petersburg, Russia, 01:11 | intervention, Golf of Finland, Russia, 2021

Kalakala - sound from russia to austria, 00:17 | Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria, 2021

Cafunzinho - sound object, sound from Austria to Brazil, 00:40 | intervention, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, 2021

tiu - sound object, sound from new zeland to St.Petersburg, Russia, 01:11 | intervention, Golf of Finland, Russia, 2021

Kalakala - sound from russia to austria, 00:17 | Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria, 2021

Last Rock - sound object, sound from Brazil to Austria, 01:10 | "TRESPASSING IS UNINHABITED", FLUC & FLUC, Vienna, Austria, 2022

Saudade - sound object, sound from Brazil to Russia, 00:47 | Kirka gallery, St.Peterburg,Russia, 2021

Kheo-Katoodoon - sound object, sound from russian village to Moscow, 02:40 | Winzavod, Moscow,Russia, 2021

Kalakala - sound object, sound from russia to Salzburg, 00:17 | Summer Academy of fine Art, Salzburg, Austria, 2021

Cafunzinho - sound object, sound from Salzburg to sao Paulo, 00:40 | Zipper gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2023