Paula Montecinos Oliva (CL) is an artist and researcher based in the Netherlands. With a background in choreography, somatic education, and sound art, she explores the sonic body at the intersections of agency, memory, and collectivity. Her practice spans immersive sonic choreography, live electronics, experimental vocals, and radio broadcasts, conceived as vibrational architectures shaping spatiotemporal experience. She frequently engages in handcrafting sonic environments where antennas, synthesizers, microphones, and speaker-instruments gesture toward the politics of noise, silence, and plurality of bodies.
In recent years, Paula has approached listening as an emancipatory practice through the long-form radiophonic project Sonic Feminist Fabulations (SFF) and Somatic Laboratory – Latinx Memories. These projects create space for sonic experimentation and embodied research, with sound, movement, and archival practices as tools to challenge Eurocentric narratives and foster collective modes of sensing and knowing.
Her work has been presented internationally at venues including WORM (NL), Sonic Matter Festival (CH), FLAM (NL), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Acts – Night Air (NL), IDlab (NL), Blob Together (AU), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Q-O2 (BE), ICK (NL), Festival Asimtria (PE), Come Together #4 (NL), Julidans (NL), Danzalborde (CL), Spain Cultural Center (CL), Parque Metropolitano (CL), and Spektrum (DE), among others.
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