In her artistic practice, Mariana Pinto Coelho Dias (Lisbon, 1981) explores the notion of an ‘expanded (human) body’ through sound, video, performance, and drawing. In this approach, the body ceases to be merely a source of sound and becomes a space of resonance, a territory in constant transformation. Drawing on principles of Acoustic Ecology and Soundscape Ecology, the artist investigates and documents the body simultaneously as a vibratory place and a field of listening. 

Here, the term ‘species-specific’ establishes an analogy with site-specific art: just as a work of art is anchored in the physical, spatial, and social conditions of a place, the body is conceived as an acoustic site, a space of resonance where voice, environment, and technology intersect, contaminate, and transform each other.

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In continuity with previous work and remaining open to creative contaminations and collaborations as a poetic gesture of cohabitation, ‘Species-specific’ extends the artist’s ongoing investigation into the body as an acoustic ecosystem, affirming it as a sensitive, relational, and plural territory. 

This project is part of the residency programme developed within the framework of the ‘Institution(ing)s’.