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 through a dramaturgy of radio voices and synthetic speech, shifting attention away from heroic narrative toward mediated forms of speech through which collective imaginaries are shaped and carried across time.
The work draws a parallel between the historic role of radio in shaping public perception and the growing role of generative systems in organizing the terms through which reality is rendered legible. Treating the operatic libretto as an operative language system, the piece displaces it into prompts, scene descriptions, and algorithmic structures, foregrounding language as a device shared by operatic tradition and contemporary technologies. Structured around the tension between the intimacy of the apartment and the world pressing in from outside, the performance holds extractive infrastructures, digital systems, and vernacular materials in friction, tracing continuities between colonial extraction and the material infrastructures of AI.
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
- Creation and performance: Italo Tavares, Matte de Blasio and Túlio Rosa
- Dramaturgy: Lore D’Selys
- Music and sound design: Wiet Lengeler
- AI advisor: Dina Mohamed
- Horn speaker: Antoine Leroy & Maxime Piraux
- Production: Felipe Bosch
- Residencies: Kunstencentrum Buda, a.pass | La Bodega, CC García Lorca
- Production support and management: That Might Be Right
- Acknowledgments Flavia Pinheiro, Paoletta Holst, Kristof Van Hoorde, Judith Pujol