As part of an exchange program between iii and CMHK, artist Vica Pacheco performed her work Ollin, which was developed during her iii residency, at Freespace Noise Fest: The Room.

Alex Yiu featured Ollin as one of his highlights from Freespace Noise Fest in his article for Art Asia Pacific, read the full text HERE.

“Mexican artist Vica Pacheco, who holds strong convictions about the urgency of decolonization, presented a group piece titled Ollín (2023), meaning “constant movement” in the Nahuatl language. In collaboration with Hong Kong choreographer Ching Chu, who led a group of local performers improvising with ceramic water whistles custom-made by Pacheco, the artist reimagined a distant wilderness by creating an evolving soundscape with laptop-processed vocals. Adding to the scene was the chimeric and phallic design of her instruments and the Dionysian gestures of performers, alluding to an imaginary precolonial landscape. Ollín thus enacted a “sonic orgy” that rejected Western musical idioms.”