Mariana Carvalho, Siegmar Zacharias
Mariana Carvalho
solo performance using pre-recorded materials that are played through the head of the performer. Wearing a set of binaural microphones and ear protectors, she shares her (internal) listening perspective as she improvises with pre-recorded material. She chooses what is audible by putting small speakers inside and into her mouth and a pair of transducers on her head. She adds her voice on top of it, and sometimes eats. Among the composed material are mouth-to-mouth vocals, voice, instruments, seashells and excerpts from Hilda Hilst's Fluxo Floema.
Mariana Carvalho (São Paulo/Berlin) is a performer, musician and artist working with the body and interactions between bodies, mostly through sound, voice, technological mediation, improvisation, text, internal listening, contact, materials, self-built instruments and prepared piano. Collaboration is a big part of her work, most lately happening in the fields of performative arts and dance.
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Siegmar Zacharias
“Practicing Futures while Grieving - somacoustic listening session”
Sound travels through bodies of water and matter around the planet, connecting us across distance and time. The listening sessions are sonic containers to experience being shaken yet connected. They are sound meditations for wandering together into a space where we do not need to be alone. They are offered as a practice for giving our bodies as resonance spaces for each other to be in the wild spaces where your body becomes part of a shared field of feeling and possibility. This session merges vocalisations inspired by the wailing women tradition of my great-grandmother in Romania with an exploration of Solfeggio frequencies. Come as you are. All grieves and all bodies are welcome.
Siegmar Zacharias is performer, death-doula, herbalist and researcher. At the intersection of art, radical pedagogy and activism, she develops performances, immersive installations and curatorial encounter spaces that deal with generative ethical dynamics of transformation: Agency, decolonization of knowledge, ecologies of artistic and social practice. She explores sound in relation to the nervous system and as a planetary condition. She works with humans and more-than-humans, uncontrollable material such as smoke, slime, saliva, the human nervous system and grieves.
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For its third edition, The Listening Biennial brings together sonic, visual and performative works by an international cohort of artists for a week-long program of collective listening. Aiming to foster experimental, restorative practices, The Listening Biennial offers a hospitable, participatory space for deep breaths and slow talk, and for listening-with the vibrant matters of our planetary world. Comprised of audio works and artistic installations presented throughout the building of Ballhaus Ost, informal talks taking place under the trees, and an evening program of live performances and experimental sounds, we invite audiences into a listening journey full of poetic voices, stories, noises and songs.
More on the full program at Ballhaus Ost.
And further details on the Listening Biennial 2025 program.