Stella Spyrou, as part of her artistic residency in Ticino in Danza Festival Mendrisio, Switzerland, shared a participatory, site-responsive device built around walking as ritual and soundscape. Performers and audience members co -created a living, evolving rhythm through the act of synchronized or overlapping footsteps. A textured soundscape of many individual rhythms happening at once, creating something complex and collective. The performance invited spontaneous participation, transforming the space into a resonant map of collective movement and memory. The soundscape emerged in real time—organic, immersive, and grounded in the body.
The work was presented within the framework of the Ticino in Danza Festival as a participatory device. It took place at Parco di Villa Argentina and at SPAMM-OSC Casvegno, in collaboration with SPAMM-OSC, the sociocultural platform connected to the regional psychiatric services.
SPAMM stands for Spazio Aperto MultiMediale (“Open Multimedia Space”). It is a sociocultural and therapeutic space connected to the Organizzazione SociopsichiatricaCantonale (OSC) in the district of Casvegno, Mendrisio, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. The OSC (Organizzazione Sociopsichiatrica Cantonale) is the cantonal public organization responsible for psychiatric services in Ticino.