Portas Abertas: RAIA no Espaço Alkantara

Ora, from the mouth and the mountain. Pétrea, from the geology of voice-bodies. This performance emerges from the collaboration between what we have called the 'human' and what we call 'stones'. In this way of making and thinking together, drawing from the broken condition of the mythical Echo, we question the possibilities of our becoming-stone and, thus, also becoming telluric voices. Ora Pétrea is an attempt to sound and to speak, questioning and reflecting upon the narratives of utility, of voices, and of languages within a capitalist-patriarchal system: what can stone and voice be? What possibilities do we have to listen and to sound? What can voices and bodies do? How can we speak ourselves? In this (con)vocation, fractured sounds and memories unfold in an attempt to be heard. This performative experience invites us to a tongued listening, to sonic magma, to the dislocated word.

Ora Pétrea is part of Soledad's doctoral artistic research: 'Revocalising Echo: construction of body-vocal feminist narratives from posthumanist thought and practice' / PhD programme in Theatre and Performance Studies at FLUL. This work is supported by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology.


Soledad Figueroa Rodríguez opens Alkantara's studio doors on 19 June at 7pm and 20 June at 5pm for a sharing session with the audience.
Free admission, limited to capacity.

Credits

Research, artistic creation and performance Soledad Figueroa Rodríguez Live sound and interactive design, artistic creation support Cristian Aros Arancibia Technical and logistical support Macarena Carvajal Acuña Support for creation in residence Polo Cultural Gaivotas - CML | Coruchéus-Um teatro em cada Bairro | fAUNA - Habitat de criação - Teatro da Didascália | Residências BELA LAB - A Bela Associação | RAIA - Espaço Alkantara Research support FCT [Foundation for Science and Technology] | CET-FLUL [Centre for Theatre Studies] | RAIA [Artistic Research Support Network] Production by CAPRA Arte Colectivo Acknowledgements Grupo de Práticas Partilhadas; Paula Caspão - JM Vieira Mendes; Marina Nabais; María Josefina Azócar

About RAIA

RAIA – Artistic Research Welcoming Network (Rede de Acolhimento à Investigação Artística) is an attempt to offer shared conditions for experimentation and reflection to students, researchers, and artists currently developing artistic research studies and projects. One of its most immediate goals is to create a 'connective tissue' by asserting practice as reflection and reflection as practice. In other words, it aims to reinforce the vast web of mutual pollination between artistic and theoretical practices that has been establishing itself internationally over the past two decades—both within the scope of academic research in the arts and in artistic creation and research processes outside of university environments. Specifically, RAIA strives to facilitate physical and/or virtual spaces equipped to host sharing formats for ongoing artistic research processes, as well as those wishing to expand relations between diverse cultural contexts—institutional, non-institutional, and para-institutional. This is done without any expectation that the shared works align with themes deemed relevant, spectacular, or programmable within contemporary performance and knowledge industries. Put differently, RAIA is not a curatorial gesture, but rather an act of mediating conditions for more encounters and more collective reflection; a way to channel forms of support and companionship among parallel research communities. Although it is an initiative by researchers and faculty members at the Centre for Theatre Studies (CET-FLUL)—which grew out of the need to create a network of partner spaces to host activities stemming from the various forms of artistic research developed within the current Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies (PETP)—RAIA views itself, above all, as a way of thinking about and generating study encounters in variable formats, open to artist-researchers from everywhere.