Following Partiturazero, the Italian-Swiss interdisciplinary artist Elena Boillat continues her exploration of the voice as a porous medium, presenting a new performance piece that examines the call as a practice of collective awakening and listening. At the heart of Oracola lies the voice’s potential to gather people, forge connections and generate temporary forms of community.

The project stems from research conducted in Kosovo in collaboration with the Sekhmet Institute in Pristina, an organisation active in the defence of human rights and LGBTQ+ issues. Through encounters in social and religious contexts, the artist has explored the voice as a space for connection, examining its links with care, nourishment, gender and resonance. At the heart of the research lie the adhan – the Islamic call to prayer traditionally entrusted to the male figure of the muezzin – and the mosque, understood as a resonant space and a place of gathering.
Building on these elements, Boillat develops an immersive device of acoustic transformation that reconfigures the liturgical function of the adhan: the call loses its vertical and prescriptive direction to unfold into a circular, vibrant and mutable dimension.
While respecting the original structure that inspired it, Oracola presents itself as a fragile, plural and permeable body, where voice and listening are reimagined beyond binary and normative logics, in an essential contemporary ritual that celebrates not an elsewhere, but a shared present.