Camil Navarro

Expanding Your Voice

Ecological Assemblage

A sonorous reflection on water-risk issues in Chile.

Camil Navarro

Paris-based Chilean artist Camil Navarro’s practice has its roots in theater, dance, and performance. Navarro’s project stems from an analysis of and a reflection on water-risk issues around the Aconcagua River Basin in Chile.

A sonorous assemblage weaves dissonant voices, somatic practices, and the sounds of water and nature into a polyphonic set of autonomous melodies. Combined, they generate the titular Ecological Assemblage.

What potentialities arise when we get in tune with an ecological being? What strategies can we explore to stimulate an understanding of symbiosis? And how can an absent ecological entity be present in one’s perception?

Camil Navarro at the Forecast Forum, on her work for Forecast.

In mid-November, 2024, Navarro and her mentor, vocalist Ute Wassermann convened in Istanbul for a work-stay at Salt Galata, to continue developing the work. Watch the work-stay video here:

Camil Navarro and Ute Wassermann during their Work-stay

At the Forecast Festival, Navarro showed a physically demanding durational performance in which the performer’s body was intentionally dehydrated, while producing sounds that expand and subvert the human voice. 

Forecast Festival 9: Camil Navarro, Ecological Assemblage

Project credits:
Concept and Performance: Camil Navarro
Space and Lighting designer: Matías Segura