Refusal

Invited artists:
Mariana Carvalho
Nour Sokhon

Negative Voids is a two-day event that transforms Morphine Raum into an active
sonic system, where space becomes an interface to explore the different agents of technological modes of listening.

Based on technologies of active noise control, echo cancellation and feedback
suppression, the performances activate the space through sound, gestures and texts. Audiences enter a system where listening becomes a conscious act of doubt, and where preconceived definitions of sound, silence and noise are challenged.

By reimagining how noise reduction technologies operate, Negative Voids reveals
the residual and peripheral sounds that remain hidden at the edges of digital mediation,
emphasizing the tension between cancellation and exposure.

Conceived as a two-evening event each night proposes a different intention toward listening:

Absence
21 November 2025
Invited artists:
Roberta Busechian
Augustė Vickunaitė

Refusal
22 November 2025
Invited artists:
Mariana Carvalho
Nour Sokhon

Across both evenings, Negative Voids provides an opportunity to listen through interference, to inhabit the interface, and explore the gaps where noise resists erasure.

The empty spaces discarded by technology become negative voids, places of exploration.