A Skin of Soil
Alongside Akyute and Alice Sparkly Kat we have withdrawn our performance “A Skin of Soil [ Live A/V ] from Sónar Festival.
The piece we had created was a navigation of the year of the snake to embody new skins. A series of narrative stories and speculations that play with the concept of resurrection by fire.
2025: (Not presented) Comissioned by Sonar Festival, Barcelona, ES
The piece we had created was a navigation of the year of the snake to embody new skins. A series of narrative stories and speculations that play with the concept of resurrection by fire.
2025: (Not presented) Comissioned by Sonar Festival, Barcelona, ES
This piece is the first of a series of a yearly collaboration and evolving research project, curated by Ikram Bouloum, in which together we explore storytelling experiences. This project emerges from an intimate need to revisit what is kept, what is archived, and what is buried. It responds to the existing, as well as our own internal climate crisis´ through the poetics of decomposition, involving more-than-human perspectives and expanded material vocabularies.
Over these past three months we have been sharing our practices, methodologies and knowledge systems, as well as personal stories and intimacies. From these biweekly dialogues, Alice Sparkly Kat has written around the theme of regeneration: a piece on migration, a silly horror story about a snake, a fable about skin, and a forecast for 2025 year of the Wood Snake. Whilst Akyute has been working on the audiovisual and audiorreactive narrative, in collaboration with sound artist Lechuga Zafiro. Together we have been assembling the performance, as well constructing an editorial format to create a piece that metabolizes past and co-imaginaries, rooted in intimacy, decay, and collective regeneration.
The performance has a duration of 45 minutes and consists of live reading accompanied by live A/V, and AI transcription of the stories read.