NO NOS CREEN
Marion Velasco’s collaborative sound piece, NO NOS CREEN, created with artists Paula Arrieta (Chile) and Leciane Ferreira (Brazil), was presented by the International Sound Art Festival Monteaudio 23 Concepción and promoted by the University of Montevideo, Uruguay. The festival took place online between December 21, 2023, and January 21, 2024.
NO NOS CREEN is a sound work that layers lyrical and other sound elements to juxtapose and intertwine the stories of Antonia Barra and Mariana Ferrer. The two women’s stories are unique but similar: both involve sexual assaults that occurred around nightclubs (one in Santiago, Chile, the other in Florianópolis, Brazil), both took place in similar time periods in 2019, both stories involved unjust court hearings held via Zoom in 2020 during the pandemic, and both stories were taken up publicly and politically on social media and in the streets.
The piece opens and closes with the acoustic-voiced percussion of artist Leciane Rodrigues Ferreira. Paula Arrieta recites the Chilean case in Spanish, drawing on her previous writing about the case published in her book Si Muere Duchamp. Marion Velasco recites the Brazilian case in Portuguese, drawing on her research on the case, and overlays it on an electric soundscape.
This sound piece joins in critical debates and activations about femicide and violence against women, in part, in response to its very high and increasing rates in Brazil.
NO NOS CREEN was created as part of Marion Velasco’s 2021-2022 postdoctoral research with Hemispheric Encounters.
