7 abiku solos for 11 bacterias falling through

Score for Flavia Pinheiro’s graduation performance. Combining multiple styles and sound works into a 45 minute long piece.

The entire score is mixed and spatialized with 4DSOUND to a 24.2 surround setup of speakers. Delivering spatial effects and immersion to the audience. Live spatialization was performed during the piece.

In collaboration with Kris McDonald.

7 Abiku Solos for 11 Bacteria Falling Through is a performance installation that merges sounds, texts, images and movement in a multidisciplinary attempt to conjure the ghostly traces of the unborn.It is  centered on the unique cosmology of the micro-biotic world  that brings to foreground interspecies entanglements : ghosts, birds, bacterias…It mingles a personal story; forgotten and erased memories with a sensation encarved in the guts. In this speculative fabulation we bring to foreground  the complexity of the colonial modernity ongoing process  by dismantling hegemonic   systems  of knowledge through scientific language and digital technologies.

The fable unveils  the  mechanism of living while in a state of being sequestered from Life with all its colonial(ist) anti-biotic, anti-zootic impulses and implications, and  creating  dances  with a broader engagement  is , nevertheless, moving at the edge of an impossibility.

Choreography: Flavia Pinheiro
Production: Tom Oliver Jacobson
Programming: Leandro Olivan, Jakob Povel, Willem Weemhoff
Touch and light design: Emanuel Nijkerk and Rembrandt Pieplenbosch
Music: Kris McDonald and Misha Douglas MacLaren
Performers : Tom Oliver Jacobson, Mario Lopes, Flavia Pinheiro and Rodrigo Batista
Support: ID LAB- Eric Lint, Cross Academy Fund, Aart Janszen Fonds.