On Saturday, May 10, Ocean Space hosts an evening of sound performances and music, exploring improvisation~freestyle as both an aesthetic strategy and a tool for thinking with geological formations, processes of becoming, and the pursuit of freedom. The evening features international artists engaged in reimagining how we listen, move, and relate through sound.
The program opens at 8.30pm with Fantasma Boca, a live performance by Vivian Caccuri and Thiago Lanis, presented in collaboration with Fondazione Ratti. In a sonic landscape that evokes a tropical forest at night, the performers reproduce sounds of birds, insects, wind, and rain using only their mouths, lips, and heads—layering each element live to conjure an immersive and uncanny atmosphere.
At 9pm, Hannah Catherine Jones presents PORTAL: Into Liquidity, a resonant portal of improvised soundwaves, loops, samples, and vocals, built through a multi-instrumental setup. Focusing on a sonic triad—waterphone, theremin, and steel pan (which Jones explores for the first time)—the performance acoustically embodies her Bajan-British diasporic history, reverberating with the themes of the exhibition and activating the acoustic architecture of Ocean Space.
The evening concludes at 10pm with Water Silence, a performance and DJ set by Kelman Duran. Revisiting archival recordings of renowned Haitian drummer Tiroro—originally captured in the 1940s under colonial conditions—Duran listens critically, reworks the material, and transforms playback into a gesture of reckoning and reparation.
Free admission without reservation until maximum capacity is reached.
