Orality, or rather its recorded trace, is not a reminiscence but an enduring present. Writing about fixed voices is paradoxical: inked words are silent, yet they resonate through our very ability to make them concrete, to hear them within us.

From her own book, ‘La Voix sombre’ [The Dark Voice], Ryoko Sekiguchi opens up an acoustic space where, for a certain time, the voice could be deployed outside this inner confinement and made visible through sound, its natural and definitive material.

The author’s voice then becomes the vector for the voices she invokes and evokes, voices from which the very meaning of ‘evocatio’ derives. The written word frees itself from the eye and this transformation inspires the duo formed for the occasion, as if the essence of each aggregate of words were, above all, nothing more than an invitation to its interpretation.

Commissioned by CAM for the Opening Party of its new building, this lecture performance seamlessly blends the realms of a multi-languages landscape of sensations, weaving a tapestry of creative expression. Both artists will be on stage, exploring the intricate interplay between words and sounds, while surrounded by a collection of transmission artefacts.

Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan

‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info