[finisˈtɛrra]
Practices and Theories for an End of the World
A creation by Sara Vieira Marques
Artist Residency
11th to 15th November 2024
Lafões Cult Lab (Vouzela)
A co-production between Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Vouzela.
[finisˈtɛrra] is the mythology of a place that evokes the end of the world. It’s also the name of this research project, which uses listening as a tool to imagine what will exist beyond that end. Believing in futures of inclusive narratives, where the human does not occupy the central narrative, and through a speculative and interdisciplinary approach, [finisˈtɛrra] Practices and Theories for an End of the World summons practices and theories to enunciate possible “futures of the future”.
During their artist residency at the Lafões Cult Lab in Vouzela, Sara Vieira Marques and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot will develop the practice “Undoing Listening”, a performative practice that proposes to undo and systematize listening in order to expand its possibilities. Using sound, acoustics and an installation device, the artists propose to explore the dramaturgical tensions and ambiguities between seeing and listening, believing them to be generators of the speculative potential of becoming.
Artistic and technical data
Artistic Direction, Research and Performance | Sara Vieira Marques
Artistic Accompaniment | Nuno Preto and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Design of installation devices | Sara Vieira Marques and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Object construction | Carlos Neves
‘Grupo Exploratório de Práticas Sonoras’ study group | João Grilo; Ángela Díaz Quintela; Inês Luzio; Santiago Rodriguez Tricot and Irina Pereira
Co-production | “Artistas Douro” grant, awarded by mala voadora, with funding from Porto City Council
Support for Artistic Research | “Reclamar Tempo 2024” CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva
Support for Creation in Residence | fAUNA – Teatro da Didascália (Joane-PT); Artists’Shelter – Sekoia (Porto-PT); ApalleirA (Sarria-ES); Gnration (Braga-PT); CRL – Central Elétrica (Porto-PT); Binaural Nodar (Vouzela-PT); O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo-PT).
Sara Vieira Marques
(Lisbon, 1992)
An interdisciplinary artist, she lives and works in Porto. Her artistic practice, of an expanded nature, combines scenic installation, performance and research in various projects between the Performing and Visual Arts, exploring the material relations of space-time to generate environments and situations that allow other forms of relationship between human, non-human and more-than-human bodies. She has a degree in Production and Design – Scenography from ESMAE (IPP Porto) and a Master’s degree in Anthropology – Visual Cultures (FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon) with research into material agency and post-human perspectivisms. She also participated in PACAP#4 (Forum Dança, Lisboa-PT), where she developed work accompanied by Chrysa Parkinson, Christine de Smedt, Eszter Salamon, João Fiadeiro, Moriah Evens, Paula Caspão and Xavier Le Roy. His projects include: AURORA (Espaço Alkantara, 2020) – a performance that explores the choreographic relationships between architecture, sound and geology; OSSU (Pegada, 2020) – a performative ethnographic diary; HEADLESSMEN (FCSH/Doclisboa, 2021) – a documentary film about material and sound ecologies; and RESONATING ISLANDS_A SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGO (Arquipélago CAC, 2023).
Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
(Montevideo, 1986)
Visual artist and scenic designer from Uruguay, based in Porto. He explores the languages of light, space and matter through collaborative creation processes in music and the living arts. He was awarded a FEFCA (UI) scholarship, from which he developed MOCHILA DE PIEDRA. Co-creator and musician in the electronic music project MUX. Together with Leticia Skrycky, Juan Ruétalo, Erika del Pino and Fabrizio Rossi, he is co-creator of the HORMIGONERA project: a performance practice about stage production and dramaturgical processes, through space, matter, light and sound. His artistic research project with Sara Vieira Marques, RESONATING ISLANDS_A SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGO, was supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. As a designer and creator, he collaborates and/or has collaborated on projects by: Tamara Cubas, Santiago Turenne, Juan Domínguez Rojo, Marcela Levi & Lucia Russo, Vera Garat, Yann Marussich. She is the technical coordinator of FIDCU – International Contemporary Dance Festival of Uruguay and NIDO – International Encounter of Living Arts (UI).
Binaural Nodar is an organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.