By: cnunezpacheco
Interaction Design

BIFEM – Never did I dare to tell you a thing- A piece of bespoke wearable Design

Credits: The featured image is part of the raw footage captured by Matthew McGuigan from Hospital Hill, and provided courtesy of the 2019 Bendigo International festival of Exploratory Music. www.bifem.com.au

Dr. Mauricio Carrasco wearing a bespoke wearable technology garment, representing the things we do not dare to say. A pulsating red light on the throat represents the repression of speech. For this design, I took inspiration from elements of western opera and Japanese Kabuki theatre.
Transducers attached to gloves. These are part of the sound-producing interface used for the piece. Photo from rehearsals. Credits: This image is part of the raw footage captured by Matthew McGuigan from Hospital Hill, and provided courtesy of the 2019 Bendigo International festival of Exploratory Music. www.bifem.com.au
Promo video

O que vos nunca cuidei a dizer (never did I dare to tell you one thing) is a gallery piece that touches on issues of modality, transhumanism and cultural archaeology. A creative imagining of a song long-lost, this solo work presents its interlocutors with an almost private, carefully facilitated interaction with sound, movement, and lyric materiality. The work is also a stripping down of soloistic language and intimacy, where electronic aesthetics coexist with the archaic forms and imagery of the ayre. 

My role as part of the team of artists consists in the design of the wearable gown to be worn by Carrasco during the performance. In addition, the audience will go through a brief bodily induction to open up their bodies and souls to intimately answer to the following questions: Which are those things I did not dare to tell when I had the chance?

This piece will be presented at the Bendigo International Festival of Experimental Music.

Mauricio Carrasco, Performer
André Mestre, Composer | Electronics
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Designer | Facilitator

https://www.bifem.com.au/2019/program-listings/o-que-vos-nunca-cuidei-a-dizer