Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser)
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Hylozoic/Desires is an artistic duo composed of artist and poet Himali Singh Soin and composer and musician David Soin Tappeser. an omniscience: an atmos-etheric, transnational, interplanetary cosmist bird opera spanning seven continents and the many verses is a new performance piece combining epic poetry and an original score, gathering the stories of the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), a bird that makes the longest migration of any creature, travelling annually from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back, equalling almost three trips to the moon and back over its thirty year lifespan. For the opening weekend of the Biennale, viewers are invited to bring their binoculars and birdwatch, while the seven performers–using air as a carrier for messages–four woodwinds, two voices and a conductor, are adorned with wings and beaks. Over the months of the Biennale’s run, a sound installation will remain in its stead.
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
This avian opera celebrates air, lightness, drifting, horizons, transnationalism and cosmism, while grieving the melting poles, the loss of home, the hunger, the defeat of not arriving and the loneliness of individualism. It insists on collectivity, social movements and non-linear ways of being. It attempts to re-route us, to go back and forth in time and offer an existential glimpse at our biped lives, and suggests drift as a mode of being (terns can hover in mid-air for long periods of time) and air as a supportive ether for the circulation of a common path (of ideas) that runs across the ends of the earth, connecting the tundra to the tropics. The references span cultural legends of fantastical birds, flying the seven seas, the valleys, the realms. The birds become prophets, poets, instructors, politicians, philosophers, guides. At the end, the music is the birds, winged exceptions to our gravity-dependent bodies.
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser)
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Hylozoic/Desires is an artistic duo composed of artist and poet Himali Singh Soin and composer and musician David Soin Tappeser. an omniscience: an atmos-etheric, transnational, interplanetary cosmist bird opera spanning seven continents and the many verses is a new performance piece combining epic poetry and an original score, gathering the stories of the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), a bird that makes the longest migration of any creature, travelling annually from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back, equalling almost three trips to the moon and back over its thirty year lifespan. For the opening weekend of the Biennale, viewers are invited to bring their binoculars and birdwatch, while the seven performers–using air as a carrier for messages–four woodwinds, two voices and a conductor, are adorned with wings and beaks. Over the months of the Biennale’s run, a sound installation will remain in its stead.
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
This avian opera celebrates air, lightness, drifting, horizons, transnationalism and cosmism, while grieving the melting poles, the loss of home, the hunger, the defeat of not arriving and the loneliness of individualism. It insists on collectivity, social movements and non-linear ways of being. It attempts to re-route us, to go back and forth in time and offer an existential glimpse at our biped lives, and suggests drift as a mode of being (terns can hover in mid-air for long periods of time) and air as a supportive ether for the circulation of a common path (of ideas) that runs across the ends of the earth, connecting the tundra to the tropics. The references span cultural legends of fantastical birds, flying the seven seas, the valleys, the realms. The birds become prophets, poets, instructors, politicians, philosophers, guides. At the end, the music is the birds, winged exceptions to our gravity-dependent bodies.
Hylozoic Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), an omniscience, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo