Here: sono nata per camminare

A day-long sound journey: the voices of women and queer individuals traverse the city, rewriting its space with their bodies, words, and listening.

October 19, 11:00 AM
Departure from OvestLab, itinerant through the city

Here is a long musical urban journey that begins in the morning and ends late at night. A participatory soundwalk that sets a community of women and non-binary people—of different ages, backgrounds, experiences, and bodies—on a journey through public space, building a collective ritual capable of making visible what often remains invisible in contemporary cities: narratives, memories, and female and queer presences.

The performance is the result of a year-long process that brought together a research group of women and non-binary people, active for months in the OvestLab space. Together, we explored listening techniques, vocal practices, and walking devices to interrogate the power relations that structure the urban experience. From these encounters, a choral dramaturgy emerged that intertwines walking, sound, and words as tools for constructing alternative critical cartographies, capable of deconstructing and transforming the imaginary of public space.

Here is a collective journey, a mapping, an expanded soundwalk, a reappropriation, a counter-narrative, a ritual. Here is a city on the move.

A project by Collettivo Amigdala in dialogue with the participants of the TransFemina research group. Conceived and curated by Federica Rocchi, Silvia Tagliazucchi, Daina Pignatti, and Laura Petrucci. Sound dramaturgy and original music by Meike Clarelli. Text by Serena Terranova, read by Claudia Losi. Production by Collettivo Amigdala / Periferico Festival and Pele as part of Creative Europe. With the support of the Municipality of Modena – Modena Media Arts and the Emilia-Romagna Region. Thanks to all those we met along the way who donated their voices, and to ArciGay Modena, Officina Windsor, Casa delle Donne contro la violenza di Modena, AGESCI Modena, Florencia Andreola (Sex and the City), and Elena Biserna.