A video and sound installation by Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis opens in Lisbon on Friday, in anticipation of Lisbon’s sixth Soa sound art festival, scheduled for August in two venues in the capital, the organization announced.
Mikhail Karikis, a resident of Lisbon, will inaugurate “Acústica de la Resistencia”, in Carpintarias de São Lázaro, being the first large-format exhibition he presents in Portugal and which will be on display until the end of August.
The artist’s work, at the intersection of sound, moving image and performance, is developed in partnership with communities outside of contemporary art, with “Acoustics of Resistance” reflecting a Karikis experience with young people who participated in a climate protest in London in 2019. .
“Acústica de Resistencia” thus fulfills a pre-opening of the Lisboa Soa Festival, whose main program of the sixth edition will take place between August 26 and 28, at the Teatro Romano and Carpintarias de São Lázaro.
Under the direction of the researcher and director Raquel Castro, Lisboa Soa offers a cultural program that crosses sound art, urban planning and auditory culture, with concerts, installations, performances, and that this year is subordinated to the theme of “Reinvention” .
The announced program includes two works by British artist Dawn Scarfe at the Teatro Romano, one of which is in the collaborative project “lu:wn”, with Taiwanese artist Lucia H. Chung, “which explores repetition and resonance in acoustic and electronic systems. , through the string of an electric guitar played by electromagnetic vibration.
Also planned for Lisboa Soa are drummer Ricardo Martins, with “Ocaso”, and singer Clotilde, for voice and electronics.
“Ocaso” is a show for “drums, voice, sensors, recordings and modular synthesizers”, and is a continuation of the work of Ricardo Martins for Lisboa Soa, already developed in the shows “Incerteza Absoluta” and “Chão de Cobras”.
Italian percussionist Riccardo La Foresta will present “Installation Drummphone”: “A stack of drums, which resembles a church organ, creates columns of sound, resonances and slow ‘arpeggios’, revealing a new architecture of the Roman Theater”, explains the festival.
The entire program is available on lisboasoa.com, which is configured as a “sound art gallery, which broadens the audience’s experience beyond live performances and concerts”.
Lisboa Soa will take place within the framework of the Lisboa na Rua program, organized by the municipal company EGEAC.
Source: Observadora
