The Most Convenient Way Out, an ongoing project on listening, performance, and audio-walks in zones of armed conflict was commissioned by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and premiered in Colombia in July 2014. A second version was featured as part of the Why? What's Happening for the Young festival at London's Southbank Centre in October 2014.
About the speaker
Luis Carlos Sotelo-Castro (PhD) is a Colombian artist-researcher now based in the United Kingdom. His practice is performance-based. He creates live environments of memory in collaboration with other artists and participants from specific communities and locations. He has done work with and for internally displaced people, Indigenous communities, and elderly people both in Latin America and in the UK.
In his current practice-based research, he explores whether and how participatory theatre and performance might facilitate listening.