Angela Viora

Mapping the Sound/Soundscape Portrait is a site-specific, durational live performance with an open-end. If we think of sound like a place (soundscape), my question is: what does it look like?

The performance makes a twist in the priority that our world gives to sight by using the whole body as a means to explore and record the surrounding environment.
The work constitutes a dialogue between different yet interconnected levels: places (body, site, and sound), senses (hearing, touch, sight), and art forms (performance and drawing). If we experience the place in which we are through the sense of hearing, rather than sight, are we still in the same place?

I have synaesthesia: I "see" sounds as black signs on a white background. Sitting on a large piece of paper, I draw the sounds that I hear as I "see" them in my mind, and I move accordingly. The place, the soundscape, my body, others' bodies producing sounds and watching me: it's all intertwined within the ongoing site, time, and body specificity.

Mapping the Sound is part of my Ph.D. thesis in performance art (2019). The performances, the photos and the videos have been realised with the financial support of the Centre for Theatre & Performance and the Faculty of Arts at Monash University (AUS).

Live performances:

DanceHouse with Tanja London (North Carlton, AUS) 2016.
PSi#22 Conference (Melbourne University, AUS) 2016.
Sir Louis Matheson Library (Monash University, AUS) 2016 - curated by Jackie Weylan.
Melbourne#47 Performance Festival (AUS) 2016 - curated by E.P.A.
Variable duration: min. 30 mins, max. 3 hours.

Video Screening:
BOAA-Biennale of Australian Art (Ballarat, AUS) 2018.
In-Diretta, solo exhibition (Fossano, IT) 2018.
Human Rights #EDU-UNESCO (Rovereto, IT) 2018.