Renata Roman

Places we cross, places that cross us

The work is about listening to the displacement, the journey, the migration. Through the sound diversity of a trajectory, it presents a series of clippings, collages and variations of some soundscapes from my personal collection, built up over the last ten years. These are places I have been in Latin America: Brazil, Cuba, Argentina and Uruguay. Places as bridges. Places to be. Places to escape.  Places where listening was everything. Places to forget. Places of waiting, arrivals and departures. Places of subjective and lingering storms. Places to breathe the sun and the hours and be that light coming in. Places for always. Places for never.  Places that are all. Places that are nothing. Places. So many visited and others only thought of. Places.  No places. Places that we are. Places created to be, to be the time of a work.

00:00:00 From inside I – Abstract

01:00:00 Guarujá II – Listening to the mountains (São Paulo - Brazil)

02:00:00 Indigenous mainifestation – Recortes (São Paulo - Brazil)

04:00:00 Curitiba – (Paraná - Brazil)

05:00:00 São Paulo – Interactions (Brazil)

06:00:00 Ezeiza – Due to a general strike in Argentina, I stayed 22 hours at Ezeiza airport, waiting for the normalization of flights. (Argentina)

07:00:00 Mar del Plata – Participating in an artistic residency. Listening to people, places and the processes of the other participating artists. (Argentina)

08:00:00 Candomblé – Excerpts from a Candomblé ritual. (Brazil)

09:00:00 From inside II – Abstract

10:00:00 From inside III – Abstract

11:00:00 From inside IV – Abstract

12:00:00 São Paulo. Streets. (Brazil)

13:00:00 Havana. An ordinary day. Inside the house. Through the window. (Cuba)

14:00:00 Havana. Other Day. In the streets. (Cuba)

15:00:00 The necessary repetition of the obvious. Excerpts from manifestations by the women's movement in Brazil, defending their basic rights and less violence. (São Paulo - Brazil)

16:00:00 Guarujá I – Still listening to the mountain. While it's possible. Southern coast of the State of São Paulo. (Brazil)

17:00:00 Piqueri – Small park in the city of São Paulo. (Brazil)

18:00:00 Mantiqueira – Rural area of São Bento do Sapucaí, small town in the Serra da Mantiqueira region. (Brazil)

19:00:00 Listening to bodies – Bodies dancing. Núcleo Mirada, dance research grupo. (São Paulo - Brazil)

20:00:00 Murga Uruguaya – Rhythms of Uruguay. (Montevideo - Uruguay)

21:00:00 Montevideo – Rhythms of Uruguay. (Uruguay)

O trabalho é sobre estar na escuta do deslocamento, da viagem, da migração. Através da diversidade sonora de uma trajetória, apresenta uma série de recortes, colagens e variações de algumas paisagens sonoras de meu acervo pessoal, construído ao longo dos últimos dez anos. São lugares por onde passei na América Latina: Brasil, Cuba, Argentina e Uruguay. Lugares como pontes. Lugares para estar. Lugares para fugir. Lugares onde escutar era tudo. Lugares para esquecer. Lugares de esperas, chegadas e partidas. Lugares de subjetivas e demoradas tempestades. Lugares para respirar o sol e as horas e ser essa luz entrando. Lugares para sempre. Lugares para nunca. Lugares que são todos. Lugares que são nada. Lugares. Tantos visitados e outros só pensados. Lugares. Lugares que somos. Lugares criados para sermos, para sermos o tempo de uma obra.

00:00.00 From inside I – Abstract

01:00:00 Guarujá II – Listening to the mountains (São Paulo - Brazil)

02:00:00 Indigenous mainifestation – Recortes (São Paulo - Brazil)

04:00:00 Curitiba – (Paraná - Brazil)

05:00:00 São Paulo – Interactions (Brazil)

06:00:00 Ezeiza – Due to a general strike in Argentina, I stayed 22 hours at Ezeiza airport, waiting for the normalization of flights. (Argentina)

07:00:00 Mar del Plata – Participating in an artistic residency. Listening to people, places and the processes of the other participating artists. (Argentina)

08:00:00 Candomblé – Excerpts from a Candomblé ritual. (Brazil)

09:00:00 From inside II – Abstract

10:00:00 From inside III – Abstract

11:00:00 From inside IV – Abstract

12:00:00 São Paulo. Streets. (Brazil)

13:00:00 Havana. An ordinary day. Inside the house. Through the window. (Cuba)

14:00:00 Havana. Other Day. In the streets. (Cuba)

15:00:00 The necessary repetition of the obvious. Excerpts from manifestations by the women's movement in Brazil, defending their basic rights and less violence. (São Paulo - Brazil)

16:00:00 Guarujá I – Still listening to the mountain. While it's possible. Southern coast of the State of São Paulo. (Brazil)

17:00:00 Piqueri – Small park in the city of São Paulo. (Brazil)

18:00:00 Mantiqueira – Rural area of São Bento do Sapucaí, small town in the Serra da Mantiqueira region. (Brazil)

19:00:00 Listening to bodies – Bodies dancing. Núcleo Mirada, dance research grupo. (São Paulo - Brazil)

20:00:00 Murga Uruguaya – Rhythms of Uruguay. (Montevideo - Uruguay)

21:00:00 Montevideo – Rhythms of Uruguay. (Uruguay)