
Photos by Alberto Pagluica
Coming to our senses
by Sara Mikolai & Isuru Kumarasinghe
In their work, Sara and Isuru are interested in movement and sound as ways of sensing and exploring the relationships between the body, spatial surroundings and emotive presence. They explore how they affect and resonate with and through each other, having developed their listening practices through their different angles of and backgrounds in dance and music. Bringing these into their collaboration, they engage with principles of sonic vibration and somatic movement as interrelated practices, exploring how they correlate and are effected by surrounding environments. Acknowledging the subjectivity of human perception, they propose a re-connection of neglected sensory abilities and vulnerabilities, with the intention to shift modern and anthropocentric notions of cognitive versus undivided bodily comprehension. Isuru and Sara have been co-creating various works together and work in various formats of collaboration, grounded in their common interest in sound, movement and listening practices, as well as their shared understanding of their artistic practices as a way of being in the world and responding to cultural-politcal norms and planetary concerns.
Presented at
The 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2024, as part of the public program of the Italian Pavillion, Due qui/To Hear by Massimo Bartolini, curated by Luca Cerizza.
By invitation of Gaia Martino.
Due qui - To hear - "If only we had ears" - public program Sara Mikolai & Isuru Kumarasinghe












