H(a)unting Songs: Hunters, Hammocks and Radio, Túlio Rosa
Space: Réplika Teatro
Dates:17 abril, 2026
Schedule: 19-19:45h
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H(a)unting Songs: Hunters, Hammocks and Radio is a performance that reconfigures choral fragments from the Brazilian opera Il Guarany into a polyphonic field where human performers and artificial intelligence systems intertwine and interfere with one another. The work approaches the operatic libretto as an active linguistic system, translating it into prompts and algorithmic structures to foreground language as a device shared between operatic tradition and contemporary technologies.
Rather than following a heroic narrative, the piece positions the chorus as a spectral space where collective imaginaries persist and transform, creating a performative environment in which extractive infrastructures, digital technologies, and vernacular materials remain in friction. Through this critical recomposition, H(a)unting Songs asks what new resonances might emerge when myth, memory, and machine enter into relation.
Project co-funded by the European Union through DIGITAL on STAGE.
Túlio Rosa. Brazilian artist and PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University / Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (PhDArts), whose practice combines performance, sound, writing, and moving image to investigate how histories of violence are inscribed in bodies, landscapes, and cultural forms. His research project H(a)unting Songs, awarded the Emerging Artist Research Grant by the Flemish Government in 2024, examines the persistence of extractive and genocidal dynamics in the contemporary imaginary through the lens of the Brazilian opera Il Guarany.
Credits
- Direction: Túlio Rosa
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Creation and performance: Flavia Pinheiro, Lore D’selys and Matte de Blasio
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IA consultant: Dina Mohamed
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Scenography consultant: Paoletta Holst
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Costumes: Dinho Araujo & Tulio Rosa
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Production: Felipe Bosch
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Support and production management: That Might Be Right