Siam Obregón - flesh and sound

Flesh and Sound / Installation, dance, performance (2023)

Vías’ Flesh and Sound challenges how live art engages the audience. This new creation by Paco Ziel and Bernardo Alvarado Rojas begins with an installation designed by Siam Obregón to inspire the spectator to a state of listening and mindfulness before moving to a performance. Incorporating the sonic study of pre-Hispanic instruments complemented by contemporary technology, as well as kinetic and acoustic vibrations sourced from the human body, this invitation to step away from Western ways of analyzing, feeling, and perceiving sound asks the audience the following question: How do you listen? Through reaction, disruption, or amplification enhanced by a 360 sound design, the performers trigger movement. Choreography and sonic composition are considered as one, and movements are inspired by images of creatures strongly attached to Mexican pre-Hispanic cosmology, bringing echoes from the past into the present.

∙ Produced by Vías

∙ Co-creators: Siam Obregón, Bernardo Alvarado Rojas, Paco Ziel.

∙ Performers: Rachelle Bourget, Isabel Cruz , Bernardo Alvarado Rojas, Paco Ziel

∙ Artistic advisor: Ami Shulman

∙ External eye: Diana León

∙ Visual direction, art installation design, and set design: Siam Obregón

∙ Sound Design: Eric Saucke-Lacelle

∙ Technical Director: Benoit Lariviere

∙ Lighting Designer: Benoit Larivière

∙ Costume Design and Installation Fabrics: Camille Thibault-Bédard

∙ Photos: Sasha Onyshchenko

∙ Videos: Yann Hernandez