Adapted to Air: Collective vocalities for a future sonic forest by Florencia Curci and Agustin Genoud
The Radio Art Residency Weimar enters its second year, and we are happy to announce our artists in residence for the period April-June 2022. The large number of interesting and diverse submissions from all over the world shows the ongoing interest in radio art worldwide. From various submissions, the expert jury decided to invite the artist duo from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Florencia Curci and Agustin Genoud with their project “Adapted to air: Collective vocallities for a future sonic forest”.
The project explores political and corporal performativity in the construction of meaning through voice. The aim is to collaborate with the practice of collective voices capable of imagining and producing possible and livable futures.
The artist duo asks: Is it possible through exploring new vocal practices to generate instances of cognitive entanglement with other beings collaboratively? What stories can be told through these voices? What futures can they imagine and produce?
These questions guide a research that conceives humans as one of the millions of species adapted to air capable of producing sound. The research draws into other species’ strategies of voicing and communication to produce new vocalities. Radio, here, is an air-adapted species of the machine kind.
Stay tuned for more information!
Florencia Curci works as a sound and radio artist, performer and curator. She completed her postgraduate studies in Expanded Music at the UNSAM University, and the Artists’ Program of the Torcuato di Tella University. Since 2017 she is Director of CASo (Sound Art Center), an institution dependent on the Ministry of Culture of Argentina promoting artistic research on sound, experimental music and social acoustics. In 2020 she founded Radio CASo as an online páramo in which to congregate during the pandemic. Her work was commissioned by KunstRadio, AMEE, CA2M (Madrid), Centro Cultural Kirchner (Arg) and her live performances were presented in Festival Aural (MX), MediaLab Prado (Madrid), Tsonami Sound Art Festival (Chile), among others.
Agustin Genoud works as a performer, musician and scholar (Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires) in the fields of contemporary voice, performance, post-humanism & new media. He graduated as a media artist and finished a postgraduate degree in data science & AI. He was in residence and performed at Sonandes Sound Art International Biennal Bolivia/ Music Makers Hack Lab – CTM Festival Berlin, The Wrong International Biennal, Tsonami Sound Art Festival Chile, FIME Sao Pablo, Metabody Symposium Chile, New Materialisms Symposium, Colón Theatre Experimental Centre, Terén | pole performativního umění (Terrain | the field of performance art) Brno, among others.
The Radio Art Residency is an international fellowship programme for artistic practice on the radio. The residency is a joint project by the Goethe-Institut and Experimental Radio at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in cooperation with the University of Music Franz Liszt, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin and ACC Galerie Weimar.