BUT IT IS WITH THE SONIC THAT WE WILL RE-LEARN HOW TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE THE WORLD

SAVVY IN São Paulo  02.–07.09.2025 
With  Akinbode Akinbiyi, Panthea Lee, SACA SAL, and the SAVVY team

PROGRAMME 

02. & 03.09.2025
13:00–16:00
On the street, in front of Casa Do Povo, Rua Três Rios, 252, Bom Retiro, São Paulo, Brazil 

Ritual 100% Dançante 
MOBILE SOUND INTERVENTION
with SACA SAL 

  

02. & 03.09.2025
13:00–16:00
On the street, in front of Casa Do Povo, Rua Três Rios, 252, Bom Retiro, São Paulo, Brazil 

An Altar For Our Ashes
OFFERING & INSTALLATION
with Panthea Lee

  

07.09.2025   16:00–18:00  
In the auditorium on the 3rd floor of the pavilion at Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, Gate 3, São Paulo, Brazil

To The Measure Of Our Feet 
CONJUGATION 
With Akinbode Akinbiyi and the SAVVY team

  

As a part of this year’s edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, SAVVY Contemporary is honored to present an offering rooted in sonic agency, radical hospitality, corpoliteracy, and forms of collective listening.

At the heart of this gesture is the conviction that the body is an archive – a living repository of memory, histories, and knowledge encoded through rhythm, gesture, trance, and sound. We propose listening not only as an act of hearing but as a practice of corpoliteracy, understood here as “an effort to contextualise the body as a platform, stage, site and medium of learning, a structure or organ that acquires, stores and disseminates knowledge.” [1] This offering unfolds as a choreography of listening, gathering, and movement.

 

Support  ​​​​​​​Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

1

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, “Corpoliteracy: Envisaging the Body as Slate, Sponge and Witness,” in That Around Which the Universe Revolves: On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space, ed. Elena Agudio, Anna Jäger Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, and Saskia Köbschall (Berlin: Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary, 2019), 45.