Sara Persico & Mika Oki present "Sphaîra"
Curated by Tianzhuo Chen
Designed for contemplation, Sphaîra is an immersive sensory experience and an audiovisual interpretation of sound artist Sara Persico’s homonymous album. It incorporates field recordings from the experimental concrete theatre, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, Lebanon, a visionary space for social integration, left abandoned due to the civil war. The dome echoes the sounds of the chaotic city and was built with special acoustic features, which allowed Persico to recreate uncanny, but very rich textures: breathy drones, reverberated screams, metallic scrapes and whispers that leave traces of sacred music, folk and opera. Together with electro-acoustic composer and polymath of the arts Mika Oki, Persico uses dense light scenography and sound storytelling to transport the audience inside the structure itself.
