She Makes Noise 2021
She Makes Noise returns in hybrid format to offer a more globally accessible programme. This year we’ve set our sights on Southeast Asia to discover the vibes of cities like Taipei and Shanghai, maintaining our commitment to working with local communities and sharing the experiences of trans artists who channel their practice through electronic music.
The She Makes Noise festival was founded on one clear premise: for decades, women have been made invisible in the history of electronic music. In 2021 we need to go one step further and add a decolonial perspective, think of other latitudes that enrich our audiovisual diversity and make room for more fluid entities in connection with these artistic practices.
There is a need to promote contents from a broader perspective, expanding our focus from gender to a non-binary way of life. Electronic culture is playing a fundamental role in these processes, because it has always existed outside the bounds of the normative.
New experimental rhythms based on coronavirus dystopias that have emerged in Southeast Asia will be presented at this year’s almost post-pandemic festival, with live performances by Sabiwa, Ziúr, Slim Soledad, Awkward Moments and Dis Fig in the courtyard of La Casa Encendida. All are appearing in Madrid for the first time. And Shanghai-based Taiwanese artist Scintii will host our first online vermouth session.
The film cycle will present seven productions never screened before in Madrid, although they’ve already made the rounds at various international festivals: the feature-length films Ecstasy, Moara Passoni’s directorial debut, and The Perpetual Leek, Zoé Chantre's second feature, two works that narrate the directors’ own experiences of coping with serious illness; and the ‘Gestures, Memories, Invocations’ session, with five shorts made by young directors (Eva Giolo, Laura Weissenberger, Valeria Hofmann, Ruth Höflich and Jacqueline Lentzou) in which the significance of gestures, family cosmologies, magic, spells and extra-terrestrial life will offer a multi-faceted overview of the year's most stimulating cinematographic developments.
This year’s online workshop focuses on the urgent need to #DoItTogether with composer and teacher Ainara LeGardon who, on the last day of the festival, will share her sound piece Mixtape: relecturas de un proceso de rescate on the radio station of La Casa Encendida.
The En Familia cycle offers two bold visual and audible experimentation proposals with RRUCCULLA and Anatomía Humana Desmontable for the weekend matinees.
This edition of She Makes Noise is the comeback edition, the edition of hope, where we can all shape new possible futures.
Curated by Playtime Audiovisuales: Natalia Piñuel Martín (Music and Activities) and Enrique Piñuel Martín (Film)
Sponsored by: SON Estrella Galicia
With the support of: Goethe Institut
