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HOUSES



“Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood stream”
Leonora Carrington - The Hearing Trumpet.
My entire life I dwelled in Theatres, I linger in them, sleep and eat in them, loiter in them, fill them with sound and work myself to exhaustion in them. I am now - until recently - recording the sound of Theatres when they are not occupied by performance, setup or rehearsal; I record them when their performance halls are deserted and their buildings are as uninhabited as possible. I started collecting them expecting the Theatres to come forward and not be shy in sounding their own voices - which I’m not sure it even exists.

This installation is the first showing of an action that will probably never end. It’s also an invitation to listen to the Theatre venues that I have collected so far, and an attempt to share them collectively to put them forward as performers. When these performance houses are not occupied, are they in a resting state just existing dormant, idle and silent? Is their purpose to just resonate whatever plays inside them in the moment or are they continuously echoing their insides, their outsides, their pasts and presents?


The installation consisted of the sounds from these empty theatres playing in a stereo configuration in six speakers and a sub. Each night a different sequence of theatres was presented. In the room, a light tower built for this showing held an old theatre profile fixture converted into a retroprojector that casted superimposed and mixed images of these theatres on the wall. These pictures were from the moments the venues were recorded. These images were later melted by the heat of the lamp.


















Recorded theatres:

.HAU2 - Hebbel Am Ufer. Berlin, Germany. 23.06.23 -13:10
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany

.Gymnase Aubanel. Avignon, France. 10.07.23 - 16:55
Rue Palapharnerie, 84000 Avignon, France

.Teatre Lliure. Barcelona, Spain. 21.07.23 - 16:30
Plaça de Margarida Xirgu, 1, Sants-Montjuïc, 08004 Barcelona, Spain

.Kampnagel Hamburg - K1. Hamburg, Germany. 20.08.23 - 01:00
Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, Germany

.Théâtre de Carouge. Geneva, Switzerland. 04.09.23 - 02:23
Rue Ancienne 37, 1227 Carouge, Switzerland

.Royal Flemish Theatre KVS - BOL. Brussels, Belgium. 22.09.23 - 13:15
Quai aux Pierres de Taille 7, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

.Frascati 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 29.09.23 - 22:47
Nes 63, 1012 KD Amsterdam, Netherlands

.HAU1 - Hebbel Am Ufer. Berlin, Germany. 05.10.23 - 14:13
Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin, Germany

.Tramway. Glasgow, Scotland. 12.10.23 - 14:00
25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE, United Kingdom

.TAIB - Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro. São Paulo, Brasil. 24.11.23 - 16:20
Rua Três Rios, 252, Bom Retiro, São Paulo - SP, 01123-000, Brazil

.Teatro Alfredo Mesquita. São Paulo, Brasil. 27.11.23 - 23:05
Av. Santos Dumont, 1770 - Santana, São Paulo - SP, 02012-010, Brazil

.Teatro do SESC Ipiranga. São Paulo, Brasil. 29.11.23 - 19:28
R. Bom Pastor, 822 - Ipiranga, São Paulo - SP, 04203-001, Brazil

.Funarte Sala René Gumiel. São Paulo, Brasil. 30.11.23 - 21:40
Alameda Nothmann, 1058 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo - SP, 01216-001, Brazil

.Funarte Espaço 3. São Paulo, Brasil. 30.11.23 - 22:00
Alameda Nothmann, 1058 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo - SP, 01216-001, Brazil

.Funarte Sala Guiomar Novaes. São Paulo, Brasil. 30.11.23 - 22:14
Alameda Nothmann, 1058 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo - SP, 01216-001, Brazil

.Funarte Espaço 1. São Paulo, Brasil. 30.11.23 - 22:50
Alameda Nothmann, 1058 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo - SP, 01216-001, Brazil

.Teatro de Arena Eugenio Kusnet. São Paulo, Brasil. 30.11.23 - 23:27
Rua Dr. Teodoro Baima, 94 - Vila Buarque, São Paulo - SP, 01220-040, Brazil

.TUCA - Teatro da Universidade Católica. São Paulo, Brasil. 04.12.23 - 23:10
R. Monte Alegre, 1024 - Perdizes, São Paulo - SP, 05014-001, Brazil

.Tucarena. São Paulo, Brasil. 07.12.23 - 23:09
Rua Bartira, 347 - Perdizes, São Paulo - SP, 05009-000, Brazil

.Teatro Oficina. São Paulo, Brasil. 12.12.23 - 03:07
Rua Jaceguai, 520 - Bela Vista, São Paulo - SP, 01315-010, Brazil

.Teatro Cacilda Becker. São Paulo, Brasil. 21.12.23 - 21:00
R. Tito, 295 - Lapa, São Paulo - SP, 05051-000, Brazil

.Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, Brasil. 21.12.23 - 17:00
R. Rui Barbosa, 153 - Bela Vista, São Paulo - SP, 01326-010, Brazil

.Theatro Municipal. São Paulo, Brasil. 10.01.24 - 20:00
Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/n - República, São Paulo - SP, 01037-010, Brazil

.Maillon. Strasbourg, France. 02.02.24 - 00:30
1 Bd de Dresde, 67000 Strasbourg, France

.Teatro della Triennale. Milan, Italy. 09.02.24 - 15:30
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano, Italy
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