After her debut at the FIT Festival last season, Elena Boillat returns to LAC with the performance Partiturazero, the result of research that investigates multiple attempts to free language from the weight of meaning, using the vibrant and energetic power of the body-voice.

In this work, the Italian-Swiss multidisciplinary artist and performer explores her own vocal apparatus to bring to light a breathing and sonorous physicality immersed in a space that is stripped bare, stripped down and filled with silence.
Inspired by the structure of the sonata form and that of certain rituals, Boillat composes and interprets a score based on the sound reminiscences that inhabit it: physical resistance and the flow of breath are used to generate extreme vocal emissions (alternating resonators and dysphonic singing) in contrast to the slow succession and dilation of movements and moments of stillness. This body and this voice seek to establish an intimate dialogue with the imagination and acoustic perception of those who are inevitably called upon to follow them on a pre-linguistic journey with shifting boundaries.

‘The voice can strike, touch, repel, call or draw near,’ reads Elena Boillat's artistic notes. "And the body is the dark cave that guards its origin and secret. Clinging to their power of manifestation, I felt that an invented form of communication was possible, independent of meaning, culture and norms, free from the frenzy of information. Like a cry in the void or a whisper in chaos, the message conveyed by this type of communication is no longer found in information but in the resonance itself, returning me to a primal terrain where defences fall away."