Ex Silens. A communal ritual of sensory reconfiguration

“Ex Silens” combines movement, sound, space and technology to invite the audience into a radically alternative sensory world. Marco Donnarumma has created a ritual that rearranges our senses. Music and light generate trance-inducing sound waves. Cochlear implants and AI hearing algorithms become biomachines that amplify sounds from the performer's body to spread them through the audience's bodies. These new organs, designed and handmade by the artist, magnify a kaleidoscopic sound world that has always been there. “Ex Silens” offers both deaf and hard of hearing as well as hearing viewers an audiovisual experience that completely rethinks concepts such as deafness and cyborg.

As part of the NO LIMITS Disability & Performing Arts Festival.

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Co-produced by PACT Zollverein and with scientific support from the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Icelandic University of Arts in Reykjavík. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of a media art scholarship.