Paula Montecinos Oliva is a Chilean choreographer and sonic artist, working with sounds, words, bodies, vibrations and transduction. In her artistic practice Paula weaves together experimental and fabulative methods, researching the agency and performativity of the sonic body(ies) to challenge the senses and parameters of modern-capitalist systems of knowledge and production.

She often works in collaborative set-ups, teaching-learning environments and structures for collective critical thinking and making. With an interest in creating conditions for embodied anticolonial aesthesis, her artistic concerns are on the political-fabulative power of self-perceived bodies and social processes as tools of re-existence, re-organization and collective trans*formation.

Her research approaches include somatic practice, movement research, analog electronics, open source technologies, written matter, featuring long waves and liminal frequencies, rhythmic materialities of the body fluids, opacities, noises and sonic refusals. Her work takes hybrid forms of sonic choreography, immersive installations, radiophonic concerts and sonic readings, presented in various spaces including theaters, galleries, clubs and public open spaces.

[An]archiving SONIC PERFORMATIVITIES, is an artistic research practice situated in the intersections of fabulative and ethico-political approaches to the materiality and performativity of sound. Focusing on the potential of the sonic to challenge the politics of time and visibility produced within the frame of modern coloniality and western aesthetics, one of the main concerns of this research is on articulating critical links on the virtual and actual bonds to what sound touches and moves.

Investigating the implicated aesthesis of how and which parts of matter and energy meet in the archival process, I want to propose a plurality of sensorial experiences and expressions, outside of the regulatory order of the senses in the arts under the different aesthetic umbrellas of (post)modernity.

Attending especially to the connections between how the experience of the forces and the experience of the forms build, grow and change via relationality and reciprocity, my research works as a mode of redirecting the desires and political epistemology of the body to a sonic body as a (re)source that holds word(less) narratives, allowing us a possible access to relocating time, bodies, voices and senses, in which we can -be moved by, move through and listen in- sound.

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1. Revolve. The Whole Life. Archives and imaginaries – HKW. Berlin . ©Laura Fiorio

2. Revolve. The Whole Life. Archives and imaginaries – HKW. Berlin. ©Laura Fiorio

3. In the drop. Sonic choreography. DAS Graduate School. © Nellie de Boer

4. N/pantla. Sonic Acts venue Night Air: Shock Waves at OT301. © Sabine Van Nistelrooij.

5. N/pantla. Sonic Acts venue Night Air: Shock Waves at OT301. © Sabine Van Nistelrooij.

6. N/pantla. Laurel Space project. Sound Installation with Pedro Matias. © Andy Dockett

7. N/pantla. Laurel Space project. Sound Installation with Pedro Matias. © Andy Dockett

8. N/pantla. Laurel Space project. Sound Installation with Pedro Matias. © Andy Dockett