Ultra [SOUND] opera works as a dissemination of touch in its sensorial, operational and dimensional driving forces — drawn from structures in the Black family, institutional orchestrations and systems of labour surrounding it: interplaying possibilities for epistemic rupture. The iteration journeys through ideas beyond 'service', 'server' or ‘servitude' staged within the context of Galeria Municipal do Porto at the multifaceted site converted onto a playground, garden and auditorium (simultaneously) by Monica de Miranda.

The starting point for the performance essay is J Paris' earlier sonic lecture series titled 'Humming as a Praxis' where he attended gentle sonic gestures as tools for renouncing public corporations rooted in colonial thought [during 2024] at the V&A Museum in Kensington (London) and Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Belém (Lisbon); exploring sounding in these site's tragic economies.


Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse", from the exhibition ‘Depth of Field’, by Mónica de Miranda.