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Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, PhD
Sonic Migrations Artist - Researcher
Interfaces for Relational Listening (INTIMAL), Deep Listening®, Telematic Sonic Performance
Telematic Sonic Performances
My work with Telematic Sonic Performances (2012 - present) has explored the ‘in-between’ sonic space that exists within the context of migration, through Deep Listening practice and improvisatory performances on the Internet, in order to expand the perceived sonic spaces that inform the migratory experience. I have consolidated this work through INTIMAL exploring alternative forms of embodied sense of place and sense of presence (tele-presence) in contexts of geographic dislocation. Thanks to The Studio Recovery Fund I created the INTIMAL App, which has been tested in Bath, 2021, and in the Earth Day Telematic Festival, 2022.
In the performance VERTICES, in 2020, each improviser explores and creates her/his own interface to communicate with others in dream like narratives, expanding it through the virtual platform.
I have received funding from CRiSAP, University of the Arts London, LCC, and from the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, with the project INTIMAL. I was commissioned by UNESCO Mexico for SUELO FERTIL. VERTICES was commissioned by MIDBO Bogotá, Sueños Distantes. I have collaborated widely with improvisers, collectives and venues in Mexico City, London, Leicester, Bogotá, Medellín, Barcelona, Oslo, Bangalore, Cambridge, São Paulo, and Troy.
Dreaming While Awake: a Network of Presence
April 22, 2022
Vértices - MIDBO Bogotá. Sueños Distantes
Nov 4, 2020.
INTIMAL Project Documentary, 2021
INTIMAL: A Long Distance Improvisation
(Oslo, Barcelona, London) May 7, 2019.
Suelo Fértil 2
(Mexico City, Esquiule, Reading, London) August 17, 2016.
Sueños Migratorios, Migratory Dreams
(Bogotá, London) August, 2012.
Bath, Tele-copresence, with the INTIMAL App
June 2021
Vértices - MIDBO Bogotá. Sueños Distantes
Oct 31, 2020.
INTIMAL: A Long Distance Improvisation
(Oslo, Barcelona, London) 3 minutes May 7, 2019.
TRISKELE: Escuchar en Espiral (Bogotá, Medellín), July 2017
Suelo Fértil 1
(Mexico City, Linz, London) May 10, 2016.
Letters and Bridges, Cartas y Puentes
(Mexico City, Leicester) May 12, 2012.
Collaborations
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Ghosts with Anna Pasztor, and RPi Ensemble (Gloria Damjian and Jane Wang), May 7, 2022
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NowNet Arts Hub, Feb - April 2022
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NowNet Arts Ensemble, Jan 9, 2021
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NowNet Arts Ensemble, Nov, 2020
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AllWomenJamNetwork, Ars Electronica, Sept, 2020
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In Transglashpone 2, with Female Laptop Orchestra FLO. Art, Language, Location. Cambridge. October 15th, 2016.
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In Transglashpone 1, with Female Laptop Orchestra FLO, CMMRS2016, São Paulo. July 16, 2016
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R.E.M.ember Srishti Interim. Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore – India. Goether Institute. CRiSAP and LCC, UAL. Dec 22nd, 2016
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Bangalore Aural Transitions. Srishti Interim. Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore – India. CRiSAP and LCC, UAL. Dec 18th, 2015
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Tasting Sound Listening to Taste, three improvising performers in London and three in Troy New York, 2nd Deep Listening Art/Science conference, University of the Arts London and EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Project Networked Migrations, CRiSAP, UAL, July 13th, 2014