Performances

Trip trough "We Tripantú" (Mapuche's New Year Celebration) - Chin Chin Tirapíe

Chinchintirapie (CL), La Fabulosa República de la Montaña (CL)

The “We Tripantu” it’s the traditional new year’s celebration for Mapuche People, normally celebrated on June 24th, when the shortest day of winter is upon us. The winter solstice, is the biggest celebration for Mapuche communities, welcoming the return of the new sun and the new life.

Garden PR and Garden Buenos Aires Program

Joaquín Fargas (AR), Giselle Aviles (PR), Carola Cintrón (PR)

This program opens with a welcome from our host institution, the UAGM Museum. Soon after, Joaquín Fargas’ performance will take place, effectively connecting Garden Buenos Aires with Garden Puerto Rico. The performance will attempt to showcase the Earth’s lifeforce as it relates to our human body, where information is dispersed in every cell, while also being interconnected as a whole – a sort of crypto body.

The Song - Live performance

Charles Koroneho (NZ) Te Toki Haruru

“The Song” is a performance of poetic retrieval, a moment in time capturing the lives, voices and bodies of tribal artists living in 1950 -70’s New Zealand.

Aotearoa Concert Night

An evening of experimental electronic live musical performance.

Microbes Performing in Zoom

Klaus Spiess (AT), Lucie Strecker (DE)

There is not only a decline in linguistic and phonetic diversity but also in the diversity of the microbiomes. Both the monopolisation of languages and the spatial distancing in digital communication exacerbate this decline. Spiess&Strecker's performance counteracts the simultaneous decline of microbial and linguistic diversity by presenting a vision of language as an ecological process.

Urgent Since a Long Time Now

Luca Forcucci (CH/IT)

The power of the voice (s) allied with poetry and (deep) listening are perhaps ways to deal with urgent terrestrial and human problems caused to the biosphere, which have been urgent for a long time now. The work is a sonic collage, like a surrealist poem based on podcasts conducted since 2018.

Proximal Fields

Joel Ong (CA), Elaine Whittaker (CA), Nina Czegledy (CA), Roberta Buiani (CA), Kavi (LV/CA), this event is organised by LASER Toronto (CA)

The Fields Institute was closed to the public for a long time, but it has not been empty. Peculiar sounds and intriguing silences, the flows of the few individuals and janitors occasionally visiting the building made it surprisingly lively. Microorganisms, dust specs and other invisible guests populated the space undisturbed while the humans were away. The building is alive, and the artists created site-specific installations to reflect this condition.

Performing New Infrastructures

LASER Cambridge (UK), LASER Fortaleza (BR), LASER Montreal (CA), LASER São Paulo (BR), LASER Toronto (CA), LASER Vienna (AT)

Co-creating experiences through sonic, visual, and embodied performance in the spaces between art, science, and technology, these performative acts undergird new infrastructures for the staging of critical discourse and playful experimentation.

Iran Taaziye

Golnaz Asldini (IR)

This Taaziye (Taziyeh) movie is about ritual of the Nooshabad people in a small city near Kashan, Iran. Annually, many people get together to mourn the martyrdom of Emam Hossein. The main feature of this event is that all activities in cities would be cancelled during the mourning carnival. This event is accompanied with live traditional, folklore music with a jubilant rhythm, but tragic lyrics. it’s the director has published a book about this subject, and defended her dissertation in master of theater directing in Turkey.

IELTS 6.5

Golnaz Asldini (IR), Moein Mohebalian (IR)

A theatrical work written and directed by Moein Mohebalian narrates the life of a theater couple who want to immigrate to another country, however, it is not possible for them. Golnesa Farokh, acted by Golnaz Asldini, is a playwright student. The play IELTS 6.5 took part in anologio festival in Greece 2021, heard in the universal day of theater in Athens.