Voice as fabulative Medicine (EN)

In on-going devastating times of colonial violence and it’s consequences in our collective despair, Sonic laments enters as a proposal of reclaiming hope through allowing grief become a transformational force.

In this workshop we will dive into speculation and fabulation as liberatory technologies, dramaturgical tools that open up third possibilities and -what if- wonders. We will collectively compose nonverbal spells through a musical voice ensemble: A raw, intimate practice that dives into the affects and effects of
voice—sobbing, breathing, screaming, murmuring, gasping, swallowing, layering, harmonising and disrupting.

Based on the poetics of the power of moving each other’s waters, we will research the alchemic forces that live in sound. Sound we create and we give meaning to. Through exploring somatic exercises, co-regulating nervous systems, imagining and collectively composing we will create an ephemeral ecosystem in which we will chant spells as a ritualistic practice of hope and cleansing.

Anllel Maria
Marika/Migrant/2000

A transdisciplinary artist from SNDO with her practice based in Performance-Theater Making.
Through the politics of ecofeminism and the dramaturgical lenses of magic realism and creaturism Anllel Maria creates atmospheric theatrical landscapes usually diving in topics related to land, alchemy and ritual through sound, movement and installation/sensorial images.

Inspired by the notions of non dualism she researches worlding matters with the attempt of decolonising the relations one has with time, language and absolute difference. She approaches making as a healing technology through the pedagogies of fabulation and somatic practice(s) as important tools for collective liberation.

This event took place during the festival in September 2025.