Performance:
Camil Navarro
Forecast International Mentorship Program
Salt Galata
November 16, 2024 15.00
Photo from Camil Navaro’s performance at the Forecast Forum, Radialsystem, Berlin, August 2024
Photo: Camille Blake
Photo: Camille Blake
Workshop IV
Salt is collaborating with Forecast, a Berlin-based international platform that supports, mentors, and promotes trailblazing creative practices.
The Forecast International Mentorship Program offers artists and creative practitioners from around the world the opportunity to work with accomplished mentors and bring their projects to fruition. In each edition, six mentors from various disciplines guide selected participants in specifying and realizing their project ideas. At the end of the program, the six mentees present their final productions to the public at the upcoming Forecast Festival.
This year, from November 11 to 16, composer and performer Ute Wassermann will meet with her mentee, Camil Navarro, in Istanbul for a work-stay at Salt Galata to further develop their project. During this work-stay, Navarro and Wassermann will develop a sound catalog that will allow Navarro to interweave simultaneities and trajectories between somatic practices, choreographic operations, and dissonant voices. The sound catalog will eventually flow into the design of several autonomous polyphonic melodies inspired by ecological entities co-existing in a desert landscape. Navarro and Wassermann will share insights into their work-in-progress during a public performance session.
The performance will take place on Saturday, November 16 at 15.00 in Workshop IV at Salt Galata and is open to all.
Mentor: Ute Wassermann
At the core of German voice artist, composer, performer, and improviser Ute Wassermann’s practice is an ongoing and uncompromising exploration of her voice. Her singing style transcends traditional usage, resulting in multidimensional sculptural sounds oscillating between electronic, animalistic, inorganic, and human qualities. In her performances, Wassermann creates imaginary acoustic habitats in which her chameleon-like voice interacts with other-than-human voices and sounds from raw materials and objects. Fittingly, she has named her field of mentorship “Expanding Your Voice.”
Mentee: Camil Navarro
Paris-based Chilean artist Camil Navarro’s practice has its roots in theater, dance, and performance. Navarro’s project arises from an analysis and a reflection on water-risk issues surrounding the Aconcagua River Basin in Chile. A sonorous assemblage weaves dissonant voices, somatic practices, and the sounds of water and nature into a polyphonic set of autonomous melodies, collectively generating the titular “Ecological Assemblage.” The project aims to develop a somatic and sound practice that examines the physical effects of dehydration. It also explores the emergence of sound and choreographic ecosystems that account for how the lack of water resources connects people to the need for its presence.
Salt is collaborating with Forecast, a Berlin-based international platform that supports, mentors, and promotes trailblazing creative practices.
The Forecast International Mentorship Program offers artists and creative practitioners from around the world the opportunity to work with accomplished mentors and bring their projects to fruition. In each edition, six mentors from various disciplines guide selected participants in specifying and realizing their project ideas. At the end of the program, the six mentees present their final productions to the public at the upcoming Forecast Festival.
This year, from November 11 to 16, composer and performer Ute Wassermann will meet with her mentee, Camil Navarro, in Istanbul for a work-stay at Salt Galata to further develop their project. During this work-stay, Navarro and Wassermann will develop a sound catalog that will allow Navarro to interweave simultaneities and trajectories between somatic practices, choreographic operations, and dissonant voices. The sound catalog will eventually flow into the design of several autonomous polyphonic melodies inspired by ecological entities co-existing in a desert landscape. Navarro and Wassermann will share insights into their work-in-progress during a public performance session.
The performance will take place on Saturday, November 16 at 15.00 in Workshop IV at Salt Galata and is open to all.
Mentor: Ute Wassermann
At the core of German voice artist, composer, performer, and improviser Ute Wassermann’s practice is an ongoing and uncompromising exploration of her voice. Her singing style transcends traditional usage, resulting in multidimensional sculptural sounds oscillating between electronic, animalistic, inorganic, and human qualities. In her performances, Wassermann creates imaginary acoustic habitats in which her chameleon-like voice interacts with other-than-human voices and sounds from raw materials and objects. Fittingly, she has named her field of mentorship “Expanding Your Voice.”
Mentee: Camil Navarro
Paris-based Chilean artist Camil Navarro’s practice has its roots in theater, dance, and performance. Navarro’s project arises from an analysis and a reflection on water-risk issues surrounding the Aconcagua River Basin in Chile. A sonorous assemblage weaves dissonant voices, somatic practices, and the sounds of water and nature into a polyphonic set of autonomous melodies, collectively generating the titular “Ecological Assemblage.” The project aims to develop a somatic and sound practice that examines the physical effects of dehydration. It also explores the emergence of sound and choreographic ecosystems that account for how the lack of water resources connects people to the need for its presence.
