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Dentro do Mar tem Rio (Within the Sea a River) : Sound Installation

Salustiano Trojaborg, Iury LU ; Hverring, Kristian and Ribas Coimbra, Mariana (2025)
Abstract
During an ethnographic fieldwork trip conducted in June 2025 in Brazil between in two cities 4000 kilometers apart, Rio de Janeiro, my hometown, and Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, I conducted interviews with the eldest generation of my aunts and uncles in order to continue the investigation I have been engaged in during my doctoral studies on ancestry, migration and the ever-present effects of colonization in contemporary societies
This sound installation is the final phase of my ongoing PhD project entitled On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolonial Journeys. At this stage, I am exploring a specific dimension of my maternal grandmother Voinha’s migration journey which has thus far been overlooked: the... (More)
During an ethnographic fieldwork trip conducted in June 2025 in Brazil between in two cities 4000 kilometers apart, Rio de Janeiro, my hometown, and Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, I conducted interviews with the eldest generation of my aunts and uncles in order to continue the investigation I have been engaged in during my doctoral studies on ancestry, migration and the ever-present effects of colonization in contemporary societies
This sound installation is the final phase of my ongoing PhD project entitled On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolonial Journeys. At this stage, I am exploring a specific dimension of my maternal grandmother Voinha’s migration journey which has thus far been overlooked: the experience of those of her children who were left behind after she fled to the suburbs of Brazil’s then capital city Rio de Janeiro in 1945, amidst the Second World War.
Having sought and received validation funds from LU Innovation and Agenda 2030 Graduate School, I was able to join forces with Danish composer and sound artist Kristian Hverring and Brazilian set designer Mariana Ribas Coimbra, to design a space composed by a number of voices and sounds of different bodies of water. The ambient sounds of Brazil play a key role in contextually framing the persons being interviewed. As interludes, the sound of the ocean waves and the rush of the river dissolve the speaking voices, engulfing them in the rushing white noise of water in motion.
This project aims at developing an innovative method entitled Ancestral Dramaturgies, that contributes to the expansion of the concept of socially engaged arts, a practice that is collaborative, often participatory, and involves people and their personal experiences as mediums of artistic research.

Credits
Concept and Dramaturgy: Iury Salustiano Trojaborg
Sound and Music: Kristian Hverring
Set Design: Mariana Ribas Coimbra
Voices in Portuguese: Arlete da Costa Andrade, Arlindo Salustiano, Naíza Salustiano, Nádia Salustiano
Voices in English: Mariana Ribas Coimbra, Felis Dos, body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro), Carla Schack
Technicians: Thomas Dotzler, Henrik Lagergren, Jonas Jönsson, Margot Erdström
Supported by Lund Innovation Centre, Agenda 2030 Graduate School, Inter Arts Center and the Malmö Theatre Academy at Lund University
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Hverring, Kristian
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Ribas Coimbra, Mariana
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Sound Art, Decoloniality, queerness, autobiographical essay
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Lund University, Inter Arts Center
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English
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yes
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