Soanación: Voice as living relation

Soanación: Voice as living relation invites participants into a somatic and artistic exploration through breath, vibration, and deep listening. We will enter a non-verbal “thin space” where body, voice, and land can be felt as entangled.

Rooted in Sal(t) Collective’s practice of Soanación —a Spanish wordplay between sound and healing—the workshop opens questions about colonial relationships with body and land, and invites us to meet the voice not as product or performance, but as a living organ of care.

Together, we will explore sound as a vibrational membrane that holds memory, receives the touch of territory, and remembers songs, bodies, and land as living relation.

Registration details TBA.

This event activates Thin Spaces: the porous places between , curated by Elwood Jimmy.

About the Curator

Elwood Jimmy is a learner, collaborator, writer, artist, facilitator, cultural manager, and gardener. He is originally from the Thunderchild First Nation, a Nêhiyaw community in the global north. For close to 20 years, he has played a leadership role in several art projects, collectives, and organizations locally and abroad.

His exhibition Thin Spaces: the porour places between explores themes of invisiblized labour and the politics of care work. This exhibition includes artwork by Christine De Vuono, Justine Langille, Kwentong Bayan Collective, and Sal(t) Collective.

About the Artist

Azul Carolina Duque was born and raised in Colombia, between the Andes mountains and the Pacific coast of Latin America, Azul plays and learns through the art-life practices of music composition, clowning, facilitation, grief-tending, and performance. As a former member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective, she is drawn to the questions that surface as modern certainties fray, and to the forms of care, presence, and honesty needed in collapsing times. She holds a Master’s degree in Society, Culture, Politics and Education from the University of British Columbia.

For more information, please contact Ada Bierling, Interim Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or ada@wahc-museum.ca.

Top image: Azul Duque’s headshot. Image courtesy the artist.

WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, the Canada Council for the Arts, CUPE National, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO, the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.