Soundperformance

Nicole L'Huillier

Event

14 September 2025, 18:00 Free admission

Nicole L'Huillier_(credit Patricia Chaparro)

Nicole L’Huillier, Photo: Patricia Chaparro

This encounter is an invitation to listen more deeply—to attune to the resonant membranes that shape our environments, our bodies, and our perceptions. Conceived as a listening session interwoven with live performative gestures, it explores notions of vibrational imagination and fluid, fuzzy territories.

Using one of her custom-built vibrational membrane microphones, the artist enters into a live dialogue—through geometries of call and response—with the site itself and with Neda Saedi’s artwork, which currently inhabits and activates the ruin. From this exchange, a sonic architecture unfolds, composed of resonant words, entangled vibrations, membranal chants, noisy feedbacks, and convoluted echoes.

The performance invites us into a reciprocal system of giving and receiving, listening and responding—a collective attunement to the subtle frequencies that pulse through both built and broken spaces. Together, we dwell in a shared reality shaped by transductive vibrations.

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Photo: Emilien Itim

Biography

Nicole L’Huillier (b. 1985) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Santiago, Chile. Her practice explores sound and vibration as construction materials to investigate questions of agency, identity, collectivity, and the activation of a vibrational imagination. Her work takes shape through installations, sonic and vibrational sculptures, custom-built listening and sounding devices, performances, experimental compositions, membranal poems, and writing.

She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT (2022). Her work has been presented at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), 14a Bienal do Mercosul (2025), 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Tabakalera Donostia (2025), Kunsthalle Bern (2024), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2023), ifa-Gallery Stuttgart (2023), Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), Transmediale, Berlin (2022), Ars Electronica, Linz (2022, 2019, 2018), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg (2021), and the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), among others.