Oracola

Elena Boillat

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World Premiere

show in production

LAC+ members have first refusal starting December 1.
Sales open to the general public starting December 8.

Teatrostudio

25.-

Fri 05.03

18:00

Sat 06.03

20:00

Sun 07.03

17:00

Oracola

Elena Boillat

Right of First Refusal

World Premiere

show in production

LAC+ members have first refusal starting December 1.
Sales open to the general public starting December 8.

Teatrostudio

25.-

Fri 05.03

18:00

Sat 06.03

20:00

Sun 07.03

17:00

Following *Partiturazero*, the Italian-Swiss interdisciplinary artist Elena Boillat continues her exploration of vocality with a new performance piece that examines the relationship between resonance and shared listening. 

Oracola emerged from research conducted in Kosovo through encounters in social and religious contexts, focusing on the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, traditionally entrusted to the male figure of the muezzin: a voice that traverses space, spreads out, and settles within bodies, gathering a community around a specific moment.
Taking this vocal ritual as her starting point, Boillat suspends its liturgical function in order to inhabit it from within and explore its physical, vibrational, and perceptual qualities. Starting from an essential formula repeated over time, the call extends beyond its vertical direction to unfold into a circular and ever-changing dimension. Through breath, gesture, song, and silence, Oracola’s body-voice presents itself as a plural presence, inviting us to experience listening as a practice of resistance and transformation. 

Concept, Production, and Performance 

Elena Boillat  

Sound and Audio Design 

Francesco Fonassi  

dramaturgical consulting

Piersandra Di Matteo  

Voice assessment and external ear examination 

Mathias Steinauer 

external view 

Laura Gaillard 

production 

R.A.R.A. – Resonances, Listening, Open Research 

in co-production

LAC Lugano Art and Culture, Sekhmet Institute Prishtina 

with the support of 

DECS Republic and Canton of Ticino – Swisslos Fund, City of Lugano (support and sponsorship), Landis & Gyr Stiftung 

artist residencies 

NAOcrea – Ariella Vidach AiEP Milan, Spazio Inverso Tesserete, Spettro Brescia, Roxy Basel, LAC Lugano Art and Culture, Spazio Elle Locarno

research trip 

Pro Helvetia Global Research Trip