Ora, from the mouth and from the mountain. Pétrea, from the geology of voice-bodies.

This performance emerges from a collaboration between what we have called “human” and what we call “stones.” Through this way of making and thinking together, grounded in the fractured condition of the mythical Echo, we question the possibilities of becoming stone and, in doing so, also becoming telluric voices.

Ora Pétrea is an attempt to sound and to speak, questioning and reflecting upon narratives of utility, voices, and languages within a capitalist-patriarchal system: what can stone and voice be? What possibilities do we have for listening and sounding? What are voices and bodies capable of? How can we speak ourselves?

In this (con)vocation, fissured sounds and memories unfold in an attempt to be heard. This performative experience invites a tongued listening, a sonic magma, a dislocated word.

Ora Pétrea is part of Soledad’s doctoral artistic research project: “Re-vocalizing Echo: constructing feminist body-vocal narratives from posthumanist thought and practice” / PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies, FLUL.

This work is supported by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under project reference 2023.00720.BD and DOI identifier: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.00720.BD