Sonic Performativity
Paula Montecinos Oliva
Transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Chile currently based in Amsterdam.
Paula Montecinos Oliva (CL) is a choreographer, sound artist and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. With an embodied, decolonial and techno-feminist approach, her practice questions the materiality of sound, listening and movement, through vocals, live electronics, analog synthesis, DIY techs, and the research of frequency phenomena.
Her works navigate hybrid formats of sonic choreographies, radiophonic concerts, sonic readings and installations, linking listening to languaje, bodies and vibrations, as tools relationality, perceptual re-organization and collective transformation.
Her work has been presented internationally in festivals and spaces including: transmediale, (Berlin), IDlab (Amsterdam), CBK (Amsterdam), Blob Together (Vienna), HKW (Berlin), Q-02 (Brussels), Sonic Matter Festival (Zurich), Sonic Acts - Night Air (Amsterdam), ICK (Amsterdam), Festival Asmtria, (Perú), Cometogether#4 (Amsterdam) Juli Dans - (Amsterdam) Danzalborde Festival (Valparaíso), Spain Cultural Center, Parque Metropolitano, (Santiago de Chile), Spektrum, (Berlin), among others.
She is a current research fellow at DAS THIRD and BAK - fellowship for situated practice, developing a research on (un)archival sonic practices, as counter-narrative to hegemonic and monotonic worldviews and epistemologies.
She also coordiantes and facilitates togther with Flavia Pinheiro, the project Somatic Laboratory - Latinx Memories. somatic movement laboratories in latinx migrational contexts, approaching the transformative potential of touch and listening of the body to enact social change.
For public engagements, collaborations, and commissions, please get in touch info@paulamonte.cl
Recent and upcoming
2023
— November: Residency and public opening at IDlab - Poetic laboratory for digital technologies. Limited spots!
— August ~ September: Residency program at TRANSMEDIALE with the project SONIC FABULATIVE FEMINISM.
— August: UNBOUND at SUBURBIA Garage Noord, Amsterdam.
— July: Somatic Laboratory Trans*latinx Memories. ATD Amsterdam.
— June: Sound dramaturgy and sound installation FOAMS with Mario Lopes at ECD 3, ATD Amsterdam.
— May: Residency IDLab. Project UNBOUND sonic-spatial performance
— February: Sound performance AFROTRANSTOPIA, by Mario Lopes at Come Together#9, Frascati Theater.
—January: Lauching of the Fanzine Acuerpadxs. Part of the project Somatic Lab. Trans*latinx Memories
2022
—December: Residency UNBOUND at WpZimmer. Antwerp
—December: Premiere DAS GIFT. Directed by Juan Miranda. Shauspiel – Staatstheater Hannover.
—November: Sonic intervention RED FOREST RADIOGRAM. In the frame of NOMADIC COSMOLOGIES AND FUGITIVE POWER.
—November: Forthcoming (Not Yet Here But Always Been There). A sonic collaboration with Devika Chotoe and Anne Jesuina. In responds to Patricia Kaersenhout’s exhibition in CBK.
—November: UNBOUND sonic performance at The Artist are Present Festival. ICK Dans Amsterdam
— September: THUNDER AND LIGHTING. A Conversation with Images and Sounds. Paula Montecinos Oliva & Eduardo Molinari . Contribution to The Whole Life Repository HKW, Berlin.
—July: UNBOUND sonic performance at Blob Together @Club PRTS. Vienna.
—June: Workshop (Un)bound Sounds. #FERALIZING New Alphabet School. Warsaw
—May: Sonic reading of Champurrias. For South Boom Boom magazine. Especial edition in Performance Philosophy Journal.
—May: ‘Kuir Sudaka Migrant Landscapes’ Talk and video featuring IPOP by DAS Research and ATD Amsterdam
—April: Residency In Transit: Ihlas _ a Constellation. Walking, Landscape and Natural Reserve. Madeira PL. Curated by Sara Anjo.
—March. Revolvə Site-specific sonic performance at The Whole Life Congress. Archives and Imaginaries. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Curated by Megan Hoetger.
—March: N/pantla with Devika Chotoe and Pedro Matias at Frascati Theater. Dolce Revoel SNDO graduation.
—March: Q-02 Residency. Workspace for experimental music and sound art. Brussels, Belgium.
—February: Residency Het Huis Utrecht. Netherlands. N/pantla by Paula Montecinos, Pedro Matias and Devika Chotoe.
2021
—November: Radio Silence Host– ICA London and DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam – How to think Symposium.
—November: N/pantla by Paula Montecinos and Pedro Matias at Sonic Acts venue, Night Air: Shock Waves, in OT301. Amsterdam.
—August: N/pantla by Paula Montecinos and Pedro Matias at Laurel Space Project.
—July: Silent Waves @ Various public spaces, Amsterdam. Public dance performance. Funding by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
—July: Walks of Arts Against Isolation, @ Various public spaces, Amsterdam Performed a 1-1 proposal in public space in Amsterdam. Funding by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
2020
— IN THE DROP Sonic choreography. MA Graduation project, presented at DAS Graduate School. Amsterdam. Netherlands
— STAMIRA[2026] Choreography and sound performance, 2020. Collaboration with Karina Villafán. Premiere at Julidans Festival, Brakke Grond Flemish Cultural Center. Amsterdam. Netherlands.
— June: Workshop. ON READING AND TRANSDUCING. Organized by GHOST Study Group No. 6 and Tender Center, Rotterdam.
— May: LAS CUATRO ORILLAS soundwork, Festival Asimtria 16. PUMPUMYACHKAN Audiovisual and Sound Festival. Cusco, Perú.
— March: ARCHIPIELAGO Sonic choreography. Perform at Festival Come Together#5. Frascati Theater. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
— LISTENING THROUGH THE NOISE Live broadcast concert. Symposium Music Pours Over the Senses. Music department, University of Graz. Austria.
— ELEMENTARY CHARGE, Directed by visual artist Mette Sterre and presented at 20th year anniversary of TENT Rotterdam.