Showcase – Brazilian Sound Art

Presenting 20 works related to dystopia, the Brazilian Sound 
Art Showcase at Errant Sound is an online bridge between the Berlin exhibition of 2020 and the Brazilian edition of the festival in 2021. The curators took up the challenge of mirroring the diversity of Brazilian society in their selection of artists, showing works from regions other than the privileged art axis of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, as well as evading the mainstream sound art circuit and taking up dialogues with other disciplines.

Curatorial team: Alexandre Sperandéo Fenerich, Laura Mello, Sonora: música e feminismos (Valéria Bonafé, Lilian Campesato, Mariana Carvalho, Marina Mapurunga)

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Waléria Américo

with Lashita Situmorang & Samsara.org
KORO (2017)
Video, 56 min Voices, speeches, feelings about the affective, amorous and sexual experiences of anonymous people, transformed by the artist into a polyphony of voices, an amplification to be released publicly

Jeferson de Andrade & Nadia D´aló

White Horse (2019)
Audio 26 minThe installation and first chapter of the novel Heat Island tells the story of Jesus, a young Brazilian drug dealer who migrates to Berlin to sell a new drug called Heat and ends up getting in touch with the city and its inhabitants

Mariana Bahia & Elissa de Brito

E daí /So What!? (2020)
Video, 8 minIsolated in our apartment during lockdown, but still connected to the atrocities that Jair Bolsonaro has been performing in our home land, a dystopian future was too easy to foresee

Lilian Campesato

de perto [closer] (2015)
Audio, 13 minThis piece is dedicated to the listener, for an intimate listening, almost as if sounds were heard as images that are inside the head of the listener. a private concert

Marie Carangi

Demonstração: Corte estilo guilhotina (2014)
Video, 3 minDemonstration of the haircut method executed through graphic guillotine. The first "guillotine-style cutting" was made by Marie Carangi, on April 28, 2014, at the Studio of Editora Aplicação in Recife

Mariana Carvalho

nylon bites [places: São Paulo] (2019)
Video, 56 minExplores inner and outer listening during the act of biting and playing a nylon thread, sharing and shifting points of listening. Here Mariana plays with different things in the city of São Paulo

Thelmo Cristovam

Catende (2009)
Audio, 20 minComposition based on field recordings, when the owners of the Catende Sugar Cane Processing Plant had decreed bankruptcy and the Landless Movement (MST) occupied and took over the company´s management

Paulo Dantas

‘02022020’ (2020)
Audio, 25 minPaulo Dantas´s hometown, Rio de Janeiro, would be completely flooded on February 2, 2020. A script for a kind of 'apocalyptic science fiction' story to orientate one of Dantas´ live performances

Janete El Haouli & Julio de Paula

Women´s Ciranda (2017)
Audio, 39 min“Cinema for the ears”, impulsed by the listening practice during an artist residency at SESC in the city of Caruaru (Pernambuco State)

Ana Emerich

In the open (2017/2020)
Audio, 28 minFree composition made with original sounds recorded by the River Doce after Samarco’s dam broke dumping toxic waste along 879 km of water. The imagination is outside all toxic capturing and silencing

Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório

Grande Anganga Muquixe/ybmusic (2019)
Audio, 3 minANGANGA reinterprets Vissungo songs (African heritage in Brazil) using abstract and recorded sounds, drones, field recordings, tape loops, and harmonies from synthesizers

Marcela Lucatelli

with Bastard Assignments
Griefs 'n Tapes (2020)
4 Videos, 56 minEach video from Griefs 'n Tapes develops from a chromatic feature - Red, Green, Blue and Bleached - and connects idyllic Scandinavian landscapes to musical Abba-references through home made videos

Vanessa de Michelis

SONIC GESTURE (2016)
Video, 1 minA single, waving hand holds a radio that swings back and forth, 'activating' an electromagnetic field emitted by a nearby power adapter. Sonic Gesture manifests itself over a wider index of issues

Thaís Montanari

Moi_Espace Public (2017 - 2019)
Video, 24 minMoi_Espace Public consists of a series of videos created by people who identify as women and wish to share their personal experience of how they express themselves and behave in different public spaces, including virtual ones

Lilian Nakahodo & Rui Chaves

DO PAÇO AO OLHO (2016)
Video, 46 minThe Curitiba Sound Map is an ongoing project dealing with affective dimensions of the sonic in its relationship with a subjective-collective experience, marked by memories, emotions and perceptions

Inés Terra

Aluminium
Video, 10 minI'm a hole. Aluminium controls me. The danger of aluminium constitutes me. Aluminium was especially created for the online event Frestas Telúricas (August, 2020), organized by sound artists from Brazil

Milena Travassos

Vertigem/Vertigo (2006)
Video, 3 minVertigo: suspended time, continuous movement. Water well, swing, wind, squeak.

Paola Ribeiro

E N T R E / Rua Domingos de Morais (2017)
Video, 9 minENTRE (between) is configured as a series of video performances, which take place in houses without inhabitants, empty.

Glerm Soares

Big Pharma Dharma (2020)
Video, 45 minIn a live transmission on youtube, having the genome of the Sars-Cov2 virus as "score", Glerm has read his chapter from the book “Sonic Desobedience” and improvised with ORCA + Puredata + Helm.

Coletiva Uirapuru

LIVING WOMEN, STANDING FOREST: LISTENING TO EXISTENCES AS RESISTANCE (2019)
Audiovisual, 20 minDercy Teles and her colleagues are traditional rubber tree tapper women. Their resistance and experiences, collected by the Coletiva Uirapuru, are crucial for the existence of the forest