Cables, electronic circuits, speakers, headlamps… “Aleph” is a sound ritual.
A dancer winds her way through the darkness, her body emitting light. She glows in the dark like a constellation.
Vittoria Toscana
“Her movements activate photosensitive circuits suspended in space. The frequencies emitted are the voices of the invisible. The dancer and I are like the two protagonists of a spiritualist evocation, two mediums who shape darkness and sound. At the mixer, I manage the sound track that the performer creates with her movements, I control the volumes, I give shape to the possibility and I listen. Each stage of the dramaturgy produces a frequency, like a sign language in the dark.” – Vittoria Toscana
The project is inspired by the exploration of the invisible, frequencies, the link between sound waves and light waves, the emotionality of architecture, and the way in which movement, light, and sound shape the environment that hosts them and vice versa. Each edition of the performance is site-specific; the analogue sound produced by the oscillators is never the same and changes each time it is presented, as do the stages and dramaturgy, which vary depending on the location in which they take place.
Vittoria Toscana (she/her) is an Italian visual artist and sculptor currently based in Brussels. Her work revolves around the themes of memory, identity and the interaction between individual and collective history. After studying painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she obtained a master’s degree in sculpture at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels). In collaboration with the ULB, she devoted her thesis to the apocalypse.
She is currently in residence at SAFFCA. Her work has been displayed in Italy and Belgium in independent and institutional spaces. In 2021, she co-founded ComoContemporanea, an artist-run space in Como. Combining symbolic objects and manual processes, her work is inspired by feminist, anthropological and ecological perspectives. She works through sculpture, drawing, sound, smells and performance.
Claudia C. Fiore (she/her) is an artist born in Turin and based in Brussels. She practises an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses dance, costume design and theatre, with a particular focus on performance. She combines various media, including textiles, drawing, choreography and music, while borrowing specific bodily techniques from disciplines such as rhythmic gymnastics and circus arts with the aim of offering the audience playful and participatory experiences.
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2026/04/252300 |
25.04.2026 23:00 Studio Thor, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode |
In collaboration with Claudia C. Fiore.
Duration: 25 minutes
Note: Strobe lights and loud volume