Like a seismograph, this station registers tremors and movements that escape the immediate gaze, opening space for tactile and sensory forms of knowledge. What matters is not separating geospheres from biospheres, but recognizing the continuities between what lives and what is deemed inert. In Caloura, the works expand the sensitive field of the territory: attuned to seismic vibrations, aquatic fluctuations, mineral strata, and botanical fictions. The earth emerges not as a resource or stable ground, but as a body in transformation — unstable and relational.
Drawing from the volcanic geology of the Azores, the proposal here is a practice of listening that unfolds into attentiveness and political imagination. Against extractivist logics, the works explore what resists capture: subterranean murmurs, suspended states, mineral archives, and fictional ecologies. Abundance becomes porosity — a territory where matter, spirit, and landscape intertwine, inviting us to inhabit the world in slower and more interdependent ways.
Works on display
Helle Siljeholm (New Commission)
Black Smokers (2025)
Black Smokers is a new creation within The Mountain Body series, Siljeholm’s ongoing art and research project exploring mountains and geological formations as entangled more-than-human bodies across geological time and space. Inspired by the community of life that surrounds the hydrothermal vents and seamounts of the Azores the work unfolds as a sensory-based exploration in two movements. Here, it takes the form of a self-guided performance, offering a floating-on-land perspective that lingers between body, geology, and the deep-sea.
– This project was made possible with the support of Perform Europe | Culture and Creativity
Lucy Bleach (New Commission)
An Infrasonorous Archipelago
This project draws on the antipodean relationship between Tasmania and the Azores, exploring the vibrational energies, fragile geologies and situated practices that echo across sea, land and air, connecting archipelagos and imaginations. The work engages with infrasonic monitoring across the islands, spontaneous volcanic events and artefacts, and swimming/singing practices. Using a series of propositions explored through experimental drawing, video, sculpture and performance, the work reflects on the value of the incidental, of reciprocity, and of the felt (more than the known).
– This project was made possible by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia. (Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, Regional Arts Australia (RAA), RANT Arts (Regional Program Administrator)
Silvia Mariotti
Almas de Cristal (2024)
Mariotti investigates ecological memories and transformations of the territory, reimagining the archipelago as a zone of mutation. The installation summons fictional fossils, impossible plants, and oxidized matter to reflect on botanical colonialism, science fiction, and the intelligence of matter as a form of resistance and abundance.
Sofia Rocha
Câmara quente (2024)
In her practice, Rocha intertwines geology, ritual, and spirituality. This series of drawings trace a symbolic and material system in which the earth is both body and language. Diagrams and gestures reveal invisible forces, mineral memories, and futures in latency, activating an ancestral and sensitive mode of listening.
CCC Collection (various artists, n.d.)
Intimate landscapes, low-relief sculptures, and subtle atmospheres inhabit this station as quiet voices. Among mists, vineyards, and mineral silences, these works expand contemporary gestures and evoke other forms of abundance: sensitive, slow, and intergenerational.