GUEST ARTIST #2
Matias Giuliani & Silvina Zicolillo
UN SOLO TEXTO Y UNA SOLA VOZ – Audiovisual Installation & Concept Performance
Monday, June 2, 2025 @ SP•CE, 18:00-21:00 (opening & performance)
Further opening hours: June 3 to 6, 2025, 18:00-21:00
Part of the AUDIO GHOSTS Guest Artists Series.
GUEST ARTIST #2
Matias Giuliani & Silvina Zicolillo: UN SOLO TEXTO Y UNA SOLA VOZ
Audiovisual Installation & Concept Performance
What other senses may emerge when what we hear is not entirely clear?
How does our imagination operate in the process of trying to complete what remains unfinished—what appears veiled, intervened, interfered with?
What power arises from the impossibility of achieving full auditory clarity?
This installation seeks to investigate the diverse ways we position ourselves in relation to the act of listening, exploring the multiple dimensions that unfold within and around the sound-musical object and the listener’s memory and imagination.
Presented work:
UN SOLO TEXTO Y UNA SOLA VOZ
i.e. ‘A single text and a single voice’, live performance at the opening event.
Deals with ‘the confusion’ between two voices.
RÉPÉTITION
invites imagining and reflecting on something that is sounding but remains unheard
n. n.
premiere of a new quadrophonic electroacoustic composition
SILVINA ZICOLILLO & MATÍAS GIULIANI (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Performance Art Research & Creation Duo
In 2011, Silvina Zicolillo (Bachelor of Music Composition and Master in Performing Arts) and Matías Giuliani (Bachelor of Music Composition and Choral Conducting) began working together as co-directors of the Nuevo Ex Ensamble Wonderland—a performance arts experimentation group—while also forming an experimental duo. As a collaborative laboratory, they create actions/performances, which they have presented at festivals and venues across Argentina and abroad since its inception.
SILVINA ZICOLILLO (Buenos Aires, 1981)
Artist, teacher, and researcher with interest in interdisciplinary creation, performing arts, and performance within an expanded concept of these disciplines. Her works have been performed in Argentina, Mexico, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, España and Peru. Since 2013, she has served as the artistic director alongside composer Matías Giuliani of the New Ex Ensemble Wonderland! She has taught courses, workshops, and lectures at institutions such as the Francisco José de Caldas District University (Bogotá), Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima), UNIRIO (Rio de Janeiro), Universidad del Bosque (Bogotá), Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts (Morelia, Mexico), Peruvian North American Cultural Institute (Lima, Peru), Master’s Program in Theater and Performing Arts at the National University of the Arts, and other institutions. She has received support for her work from the Ministry of Culture of the Nation (Argentina), National Arts Fund (Argentina), National Culture Secretary (Argentina), National Foreign Affairs Ministry of Argentina, National University of the Arts – UNA, Iberescena, Ibermúsica, Mozarteum Foundation, University of Paris 8 (France), among others. She was selected, along with two other projects, in the New Opera Contest of the CETC (Center for Theater Experimentation at the Teatro Colón) and ISA (Institute of Advanced Studies at the Teatro Colón).
https://silvinazicolillo.wordpress.com
MATIAS GIULIANI (Buenos Aires, 1975)
A Buenos Aires-based artist, transitioned from academic music composition to explore conceptual, performance art, and transdisciplinary boundaries. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Composition and Choral Conducting from UCA, and received extensive instruction from renowned composers Jorge Rosso, Jorge Sad, and Francisco Kropfl. Recent years have seen Giuliani’s artistic focus shift to an intermediate space bridging musical composition and performance art. Here, musicians are seen as both interpreters and stage performers with specialized musical knowledge. His work with Nuevo Ex Ensamble Wonderland!, which he co-directs with Silvina Zicolillo, has been crucial to this evolution. Giuliani is a composition professor and coordinator of the Advanced Program in Contemporary Music at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory. He also advocates for the Mixed Media Composition program at the Astor Piazzolla Conservatory, co-directing the MIXLAB project with Lautaro Vieyra. He has taught courses, workshops, and lectures including the University of Auckland and IRCAM. Giuliani’s works have been presented in Argentina and abroad at several venues. He has received honors such as the Municipal Award, multiple J.C. Paz Awards from the FNA, and scholarships from organizations like OV-Alliance, BIT20 ENSEMBLE, and Fondation Royaumont. Giuliani serves as a tutor in the Transdisciplinary Creation Laboratory in Buenos Aires and as a consultant in the “Compositional Residencies, Contemporary Discussions” project at the National University of Córdoba. Over two decades, he has organized numerous talks and workshops, fostering collaboration among composers, performers, and creators in institutional settings. In addition to their artistic practice, they systematically engage in teaching and mentorship, leading courses, workshops, and creative process guidance within artistic residencies. Their work dialogues with elements of musical tradition while interrogating notions such as “performer,” “audience,” “concert,” and “authorship.” Their projects span genres like sound/musical creation, performance, and expanded scenic arts.