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Jonatham Uliel Saldanha

ARTIST RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER IN ARTS OF SOUND AND IMAGE_ESAD. CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OSSO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
april 25th to 29th, 2023
OSSO Facilities, in the village of S. Gregório, Caldas da Rainha

Residency with Jonathan Uliel Saldanha for the development of collective creation processes from active listening to interstitial sound spaces. Using the fabrication of cosmogonies and composition diagrams we will fictionalize spatial relations in sound space. Starting from the relation and tension of the components of a system we will articulate each particle as part of an autopoetic flow. A gesture where timbre and synthesis manifest the time of a mutant nature and where spectra and fungi dialogue with the magnetic fields of a vibrational jungle.

JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA is a composer, visual artist and director, researching areas that cross pre-language, otherness and science fiction. He programmed the CCB during 2022 with a cycle of concerts. He was an associate artist of the Municipal Theater of Porto for 2020/2022 presenting the plays RED MERCURY, LITHIUM FAUST, 3xDRILLS and LIBIDINAL LAKE. In 2019, he premiered his vocal and sculpture play Scotoma Cintilante / Dysmorphia (Catholic University of Porto, BoCA – Biennial, Teatro Nacional São Carlos), the electronic percussion play Broken Field Atlantis (FITEI – International Festival of Expression Theater, Rivoli), and the exhibitions Plague Vector (Municipal Gallery of Braga), Locus Horribilis (Solar Gallery) and Behemoth Republic (Arquipélago – Centro de Arte Contemporânea,  within the framework of Sonic Geometry). Between 2016 and 2018 he presented the installation Vocoder & Camouflage, the play O Poço, the installation Oxidation Machine, the exhibition Afasia Tática and the play/film Søma at the DDD Festival, Verão Azul – International Arts Festival, Festival Do Disturb (Tokyo Palace), Anozero: Bienal de Coimbra, Culturgest and Cordoaria Nacional (Lisbon). In 2012 he was co-curator of the program “SONORES” for Guimarães European Capital of Culture. Since 2009 he has created the scenic pieces Nyarlathotep and Jungle Machine and composed the pieces for choir and resonant space: Khoros Anima, Sancta Viscera Tua, Del, Silvo Umbra and Plethora. He has performed in concerts at the festivals: Unsound, Le Guess Who?, Sónar, Primavera Sound, Out.Fest, Neopop and Elevate. He directs the projects HHY & The Macumbas and HHY & The Kampala Unit. He founded the collective SOOPA, producer of concerts/performances in Porto, in 1999. The Serralves Museum has published his film/essay Crystal World, Jungle Machine. His music has been edited by Nyege Nyege, iDEAL, SILO, Wordsound, House of Mythology, Tzadik. Since 2018 he has collaborated with the African publisher Nyege Nyege. He is represented by Galeria Duarte Sequeira.