Letters and Bridges - Telematic Sonic Performance

Letters and Bridges is a telematic sonic performance between migrants located in the cities of Leicester and Mexico City. It invites to listen and support the in-between space created by their migrations. This is a space full of questioning, affirmations and feelings involved in our expansion as human beings in distant places and times. Following the Deep Listening practice, and through meetings via the Internet, the performers (who are mostly with non-performance backgrounds) have followed a process of sounding creatively letters sent by their loved ones, establishing bridges of access and contact with them. In the same manner, the performers have exchanged letters expressing feelings towards the place where they currently live. They created sound bridges derived from their migrations. Coming from six different countries (Croatia, France, Mexico, Portugal, England and United States), and mixing their native languages with languages learnt in their life path, they met in real-time from the migratory nodes of Mexico City and Leicester (England). From a migratory perspective, the active audience (who have met in pre-performance workshops in both locations) offers the sonic context of these two cities that are hosting permanently or transitorily the migrants. This performance is part of the ongoing project "Networked Migrations: listening to and performing the in-between space".

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