The Unfolding of Bodies, Space, and Time
A 9-hour durational performance
Saturday 29 August 12.00 – 21.00
Artists: selina bonelli, Dolanbay, Francis Heery, Hui-Chun Lin, Elo Masing, Thomas Reul
Sound-doing in the mode of performance can be understood as a situated and embodied practice in which sound is not simply an object to be heard, but an event that actively produces relations between bodies, spaces, temporalities, and modes of perception.
Do I Sound brings together performance artists and sound artists within a shared durational event. Within this performative framework, doing, listening, and presence are continually informed by the experience and perception of time and space. Sound and movement emerge through their relation to an unfolding situation, shaped by the temporary collectivity of bodies inhabiting a shared environment. The performance develops through the accumulation of acts, gestures, sounds, silences, movements, and encounters, without being directed towards a predetermined outcome.
No mode of participation is privileged or prescribed. Each occurrence remains contingent, ephemeral, and responsive to the shifting relations between bodies, materials, sounds, space, and time. The work therefore settles not into a fixed composition, but flows within an ongoing process through which the situation unfolds.
Do I Sound responds to the urgency of being present within a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises, uncertainties, and forms of instability. Rather than attempting to represent these conditions, the performance creates a space in which presence itself becomes a practice: an attentiveness to what is occurring and what might remain unresolved. Within the unfolding of the performance, the work stays open to emergence, developing through the continual interplay of doing and listening, action and receptivity.