IRENE RODEVIA
STATEMENT
Irene Rodevia (Cali, 1988)
I am a performance artist, vocal performer and researcher. My practice unfolds at the edges of singing and sound, where the voice ceases to be merely language or melody and becomes matter, gesture, energy, and architecture. I work with sound as an expanded field of perception and creation—a sensitive tool to sculpt bodies, spaces, and relationships.
I specialize in experimental vocal performance, sound art, and somatic practices of deep listening. I explore liminal states, sensory dissidence, and vibrational languages that challenge conventional understandings of music, voice, and presence. Each project is an act of risk and rupture—a departure from inherited forms of singing to make space for new textures, aesthetics, and ways of relating to the living.
As a researcher, I develop transdisciplinary methodologies that bridge art, the body, ecology, disability, and vibrational technologies. My processes are both laboratories of creation and living interventions in the culture of sound.
I collaborate with artists, art centers, academic institutions, and diverse communities to activate immersive experiences, contemporary rituals, and radical pedagogies of singing. My work transforms the voice into a territory of poetic, political, and sensory experimentation.
BIO
IRENE RODEVIA (1988, Colombia) is a transdisciplinary artist, singer, and vocal therapist who works at the intersection of sound art, somatic practice, and performance. Under the name IRAKARA, she creates works that combine extended vocal techniques, embodied voice research, and sound ecology to reimagine the voice as a tool for perception, healing, and social transformation. Her practice centers the voice as a relational, sensory, and collective medium that connects artistic creation with therapeutic and pedagogical frameworks.
She has presented original works and led laboratories on platforms such as Global Artivism (South Africa); the residency Reactivating Exile Capacities (R.E.C) (Portugal); the 45th and 46th National Salon of Artists (SNA45 and SNA46) in Colombia; La Tertulia Museum (Cali); Plataforma Caníbal (Barranquilla); and Experimenta Sur – International Platform for Live Arts. Her research project Cuerpos Resonantes, recognized by the Colombian Ministry of Culture, creates multisensory and inclusive sound experiences for communities with different levels of hearing, blending experimental sound design with somatic pedagogy.
As a composer and performer, she has created original soundtracks for film, theater, and live art, integrating bodily resonance and improvisation into her music. She draws from her background in industrial design, anthroposophic singing therapy, and live arts, and has developed her own methodologies that combine therapeutic sound work with contemporary performance practices. Irene is the founder of Voz a Vos – Laboratorio de Resonancia, where she offers training programs and leads the volunteer initiatives Cantos en el Umbral and Cuidado al Cuidador, in collaboration with the Humanization Department of the Hospital Universitario del Valle (H.U.V.) and its program Transformando el Círculo de la Violencia (TCV). These initiatives provide weekly therapeutic singing sessions in the ICU, Neonatology, Humanized Care, and Oncology units. Her approach has led her to collaborate with cultural institutions, museums, and artistic innovation platforms internationally, establishing her path as an artist who expands the boundaries of voice and listening.
