RESONATING ISLANDS

A SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGO

RESONATING ISLANDS_A SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGO is an artistic research project that starts from a questioning about the material and ecological experience of the human body when confronted with its natural and phenomenological environments.

Departing from the physical study of geological and atmospheric phenomena and the imagination of common futures, this project activates the materialisation of non-anthropocentric performative places.

Blurring the boundaries between the performing and visual arts, this research puts into practice "imaginary geographies": mountains, which are islands, which are volcanoes, which are the centre of the earth, which are the beginning.

RESONATING ISLANDS proposes a set of scenarios in the performative space that produce abstract places where the human does not occupy the central figure nor the central narrative. Prioritising the work of light, sound and space - languages that use non-human materials and work with their "invisibility" - the project comes to pay real attention, not only to the relationships between human bodies and their presence, but also between everything that belongs to our relational systems.

In 2023 this project was premiered in Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Center (Azores, Portugal) as a Listening Session, a performance where a light, sound and spatial installation was responding in real time to seismic data from the Azores archipelago, positioned over a triple tectonic junction of constant activity. 





















Artistic Direction, Choreography and Research
Sara Vieira Marques & Santiago Rodriguez Tricot

Artistic Assistance
Romain Teule

Light and Space Installation Sara Vieira Marques and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot

Sound Design and Collaboration
Fabrizio Rossi

Production
Carol Goulart

Co-production
Anda&Fala

Grant - Finatial Support
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

ResidenciesForum Dança (Lisbon - PT); Devir Capa (Faro - PT); CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto-PT); vaga - espaço de arte e conhecimento (Azores -PT); CRL - Central Eléctrica (Porto-PT); Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Center (Azores -PT); TMP - Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto-PT); NAVE - Centro de Creación y Residencia (Chile); Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile); Mansa Mansion (Argentina), Universidade de Córdoba (Argentina)









*this project was awarded the Artistic Creation Grant 22/23 - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation(PT)