The third session focused on the performativity of the sound and light. The theme was framed and reflected on the background of the artwork of Nanni Vapaavuoiri and Elia Moretti.
Nanni Vapaavuoiri, lighting designer and PhD candidate at the Performing Arts Research Centre at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, questioned the relation between lighting design, attention, and intention. On examples of extracts from her performative experiments of collaborative character, she demonstrated her perception of the concept of attention and focus, framed by research of the relevant theory, and alternative approaches to lighting design. With respect to recipients and different actors of collaborative projects, she understands lighting design not as a tool which helps to create background or atmosphere, but as a way how to make space for a certain purpose and /or with a certain intention.
Performer, composer, percussion player and researcher Elia Moretti focused on the potential of sound as a change-maker of the current society. Through the case study of the Symposium Musicum project, prepared within the 8th issue of the community festival of contemporary theatre and art UM UM, he analysed, tested and researched the possibilities of sound as a performative devise which opens the dialogue and change the perspectives in multicultural relations.