Delta Listening: Angélica Castelló, Israel Martinez, RE#SISTER, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Delta Listening – Friday 11 July
WORM presents a night of listening differently with performances by Angélica Castelló, Israel Martinez, and RE#SISTER, with an opening reading by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
About the artists
Sound artist and composer Angélica Castelló (Mexico City/Vienna) writes for her own instruments (mainly the Paetzold subgreatbass recorder, with and without electronics), using her recordings as a raw material, editing them sometimes beyond recognition, and combining them with deformed fragments of other elements. Her works address the subjects of our more-than-human cohort, such as the animal world: beasts from literature, the animal kingdom, and daily life.
Israel Martínez (Mexico) is an artist who works from sound to different media such as video, photography, text, publications, installation, actions and interventions in public spaces, with the aim of generating diverse social and political reflections in a critical way, and often exploring the stealth as a pertinent communicational tool. For Delta Listening, Israel brings together audio recordings from diverse project: stitching together
Rotterdam’s RE#SISTER collective appears with a brand-new collaboration by members Channa Boon, Susan Goldman and Valentina Vella. This WORM Sound Studio-based entity experiments and improvises with intention; in true improvisatory spirit, this will be the first time the three artists perform together. Channa brings her ceramic khachapuri, Susan the Korg MS20 synth, and Valentina her voice with watery words that presage the delta’s flood-futures.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – artist, researcher, writer, and theorist – opens the evening with a reading. His interdisciplinary body of work addresses urgent issues of climate crises, ecology and environmental justice, migration, race, and decoloniality, with the critical contemplation of a (com)passionate listener.
About Delta Listening
Delta Listening is a series of performance-based events, workshops and radio broadcasts that foreground listening as a creative and critical practice. Delta Listening brings together artists and researchers to reflect on the role listening plays in our relationships to each other and to our environments.
Convened by Brandon LaBelle and Ash Kilmartin, Delta Listening is named for Rotterdam’s location in the Rhine/Meuse/Scheldt delta, and the idea of listening as an agent of change: Delta being a symbol for variation. We invite audiences to listen for and with difference.
