I am a Chilean sound artist, composer, and researcher, born in 1986 in Curicó, Chile and currently based in Lisbon. Working as a migrant across South America and Europe is a material condition that shapes how projects are produced, how they travel, and how listening situations are negotiated across different institutional, linguistic, and technical contexts.
I work with sound to construct situations where perception is produced. Sound appears as force, trace, pressure, and environment, and the work consists in organising the conditions through which a reorientation of the perceptual field becomes possible.
This practice unfolds through installations, performances, and site-specific projects where interference and resonance operate as compositional tools, and where listening depends on movement, position, and duration. Highlights include presentations at sound art festivals such as Novas Frequências (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Lisboa Soa (Lisbon, Portugal), and Espacios Resonantes (Santiago, Chile), and at institutions including the National Museum of Music (Portugal), Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, and Kunstsammlung Gera (Germany). The work also circulates through smaller contexts, including performances at Laboratorio del Eco (Valparaíso, Chile), Hotelier (Porto, Portugal) and Oficinas do Convento (Montemor-o-novo, Portugal), and a radio residency at Rádio Quântica (Lisbon, Portugal).
In parallel, I collaborate creatively on works presented within contemporary art, media-art, and performative arts platforms, including Alkantara/Espaço do Tempo, Art Basel (with Maotik Studio), the Bienal de Cerveira, the BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Pergine Festival, and ZKM ne(x)t_generation. I also contribute in a technical capacity through sound design and spatial audio work, including the Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020 and the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Teaching has been another important mode of collaboration for me, including programs at Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Toda la Teoría del Universo (Concepción, Chile).
My background combines artistic research and technical training. I hold an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin and an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Valparaíso, Chile).
A part of this work has taken shape through art residency situations, most notably at Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark), within Bridges to the Unknown at the Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon), and at Ars Electronica & the Institute for Digital Science (Linz, Austria), among many others in Europe and Latin America.
My practice has been supported by grants and awards from the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes, Portugal), the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal), the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Chile), the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (Chile), Culture Moves Europe (European Union), and the British Council (United Kingdom).
I work with sound to construct situations where perception is produced. Sound appears as force, trace, pressure, and environment, and the work consists in organising the conditions through which a reorientation of the perceptual field becomes possible.
This practice unfolds through installations, performances, and site-specific projects where interference and resonance operate as compositional tools, and where listening depends on movement, position, and duration. Highlights include presentations at sound art festivals such as Novas Frequências (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Lisboa Soa (Lisbon, Portugal), and Espacios Resonantes (Santiago, Chile), and at institutions including the National Museum of Music (Portugal), Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, and Kunstsammlung Gera (Germany). The work also circulates through smaller contexts, including performances at Laboratorio del Eco (Valparaíso, Chile), Hotelier (Porto, Portugal) and Oficinas do Convento (Montemor-o-novo, Portugal), and a radio residency at Rádio Quântica (Lisbon, Portugal).
In parallel, I collaborate creatively on works presented within contemporary art, media-art, and performative arts platforms, including Alkantara/Espaço do Tempo, Art Basel (with Maotik Studio), the Bienal de Cerveira, the BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Pergine Festival, and ZKM ne(x)t_generation. I also contribute in a technical capacity through sound design and spatial audio work, including the Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020 and the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Teaching has been another important mode of collaboration for me, including programs at Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Toda la Teoría del Universo (Concepción, Chile).
My background combines artistic research and technical training. I hold an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin and an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Valparaíso, Chile).
A part of this work has taken shape through art residency situations, most notably at Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark), within Bridges to the Unknown at the Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon), and at Ars Electronica & the Institute for Digital Science (Linz, Austria), among many others in Europe and Latin America.
My practice has been supported by grants and awards from the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes, Portugal), the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal), the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Chile), the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (Chile), Culture Moves Europe (European Union), and the British Council (United Kingdom).
© Joaquín Espinoza