‘Puro Spirito’ seeks a continuous balance between sound, dance and air through the intense, rhythmic handling of bottles with different resonances, turning the ethereal space between two bodies into an extension of the work itself.
Increasingly active in the interstices between sound and performance over recent years, Xavier Paes and Inês Tartaruga Água have been building a deeply singular body of work, in which experimentation, research and meticulous attention unfold across space and time through a sustained engagement with the corporeality of sound-as-vibration. Describing themselves as "avid gleaners", they create works in which materials, often salvaged from the detritus of everyday life and placed in dialogue with their surroundings, are activated through gesture as one or several sound sources. At this edition of OUT.FEST, the duo takes on an unprecedented daily presence: each day brings the presentation of a different work.
[Presented within the scope of the tekhnē project, co-funded by the European Union]