VITTORIA TOTALE, Solo Voce
Performance, INTERMEZZO
Solo Voce is the performative declination of an ongoing research project on voice in sound and voice as sound by Vittoria Totale. Immersed in the practices of sound poetry and oral storytelling –at the core of which lie repetition, variations of interpretation and the subsequent reshufflement of meaning– the spoken performance presents voice as a spatial and imaginative tool. Through manipulations of volume, tone and layering, Vittoria creates onomatopoeic and loopy plateaux on which the listener can freely glide, letting go of the urge to translate to let the words speak for themselves.
Solo Voce is the debut album of Vittoria Totale, released on Recital in 2024.
Conceived to happen between shows, Intermezzo enhances the exhibition program of KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS with performative interventions circling around sound, spoken word, dance and movement.
The series is conceived by Lewon Heublein.
- Vittoria Totale
Vittoria de Franchis (Bruxelles, 1993) is a curator and voice researcher operating between London, Berlin and Bomarzo. Her practice delves into the intersection of text, sound, performance, installation and non-formal educational formats, with a focus on the creation of speculative and participatory contexts. Currently, she is a curator at CIRCA and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation. Her projects include the worldwide series of interdisciplinary salons gggglllloooossssaaaa (2023 – present), the residential workshop Nuova Atlantide (2020 – 2024) and the multimedia project for Il Parco dei Mostri, Una Cosa Mostruosa (2021). Her voice works have been released by labels such as Recital, Villa Lontana Records, and Meakusma (upcoming) as well as being presented at AA Architectural Association, MACRO, Settantaventidue, Fondazione Sozzani, Festival dei Due Mondi, LOST Music Festival, Project Ada, IUNO, Établissement d’en face, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, LANDESCAPE. Since 2024 she is one of the voices of NTS. Over the years she has participated in voice and performance workshops by the Marina Abramovic Institute and the Meredith Monk Foundation.
