Following Rewire’s opening performance, Puerto Rican Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Kianí del Valle and Spanish visual artist Anna Diaz will enter into a conversation with Giada Dalla Bontà about their collaborative practice and the audiovisual and choreographed performance CORTEX. The performance takes the human brain as its subject matter and unfolds over four acts, exploring processes of grief, displacement, loneliness, and mortality, and the intangible limbo between life and death. CORTEX combines the choreography and direction by del Valle with visuals by long time collaborator Diaz (of Hamill Industries), and an original live sound score by Tayhana. Del Valle and Diaz will speak about their complementary artistic languages and interdisciplinary forms of collaboration, and how CORTEX cultivates a space where individual and communal expression converge, enhancing the potential of movement as a medium for the profound exploration of identity. 

Driven by anthropological, biological, and sociological concepts, Kianí del Valle’s work merges the lines of contemporary dance and performance art within film, photography, architecture, pop culture, technology, and sound. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and now based in Berlin and Los Angeles, del Valle is a show and film director, choreographer, dancer, and actor. Her embodied practice is guided by the interdependence of physical exhaustion, intuitive groove, movement meditation, ritualistic practice, migratory journeys, and paranormal experiences – all intertwined with theatrics and amplified with a visual component that often taps into the magical, surreal, fictional, and dystopic. The founder and choreographer of KDV Performance Group, del Valle has deepened her research by finding the subjectivity in historical Caribbean narratives, particularly among historical colonial realities and Taíno Indigenous culture. 

A Barcelona-based creative studio composed of artists and creative technologists Anna Díaz and Pablo Barquín, Hamill Industries specialise in developing innovative projects based on experimentation, blending emerging and traditional techniques to create new formats of visual communication. The duo builds poetic, playful visual experiences by combining digital and analogue technologies with professional DIY craftsmanship, blending physical engineering, lighting design, moving image, AI, and visual programming

Giada Dalla Bontà is an Italian researcher, curator, and writer exploring the intersections of sound, art, and politics. Based in Berlin and Copenhagen, she works as a PhD fellow at KU Sound Studies Lab, focusing on experimental and underground practices in the EECCA region from the late soviet era to the present day.