Everywhere: A polyphonic Network, 2020


The title of this performance is drawn from Roland Barthes’ How to Live Together, where he describes territory as a polyphonic network of familiar sounds — those we recognize and come to interpret as signs of our space. I regard architectural space as a site of co-existence between human and non-human agents: materials, sounds, and perhaps even humans as non-human. This resonates with Barthes’ vision of a utopian community: a space without repression, where hearing exists without the domination of listening.

In this work I reflect on how we move through architectural space, navigating thresholds between inside and outside, self and environment. I explore performative gestures that allow both performers and audience veer into various positions, shifting the line between performer and witness. Movement becomes a way of shaping space, not as fixed locations, but as a fluid, indivisible volume defined by relation and resonance. As the performance unfolds, it acts as a sonic intervention: sound generated with an aluminium sheet and rod, which moves through architecture, visible and invisible, anchoring us in a continuous negotiation between the familiar and the unseen. We become ear-witnesses, attuned to the acousmatic — that which is heard but not seen — drawn into spaces both remembered and imagined.