#2 Interference

Realised as part of the international festival of ‘weird music’ BABA, the performance unfolds across two distant yet synchronised locations: one artist stationed in Guangzhou, the other in Rome. The work combines performance, ritual, and sound, incorporating an invocation written for the mythical figure of Lilith, created in collaboration with an opera choir. Inside the festival venue, a spirit cabinet is set up, where Vera sits amidst a crescendo of sound and spectral manifestations that start to appear on her body, turning her into a living threshold between worlds. Meanwhile, in China, Francesca delivers a lecture-performance, attempting to establish a contact with Vera across the void. As the invocation intensifies, inexplicable phenomena begin to appear, such as flickers, distortions, and both psychic and electronic interruptions. A sound installation, titled Psychophony, was later developed using field recordings from the performance, exploring the materiality of disembodied voices, frequencies, fragments of voice in the ether.