Object Permanence is a performance based research project that investigates how we perceive the world when vision recedes and the body becomes our primary site of thought. Rooted in the unique capacity of the performing arts to activate imagination in real time, the work explores the shifting terrain between sensation and meaning, signal and feeling, body and thought.
The process begins with an artistic collaboration with Diego Solano, a deafblind musician living with Retinitis Pigmentosa. As his visual field has progressively narrowed, Diego has developed new perceptual strategies — including synesthesia — that radically reshape how we both navigate and interpret our surroundings. Together, we generate alternative psychophysical maps that challenge the dominance of sight and propose more inclusive ways of relating to the world and to one another.
Drawing from these shared practices, the research experiments with exchanging perceptual filters and creating tools that expand the sensory experience of audiences. Reflex Actions is the first public manifestation of this ongoing inquiry: a work in progress toward a performative lecture that invites us to imagine new forms of presence and relationality.
Artist biographies
iara Solano Arana is a Spanish artist and researcher creating relational, transdisciplinary performance works centred on perception, the body, and audience experience. She develops immersive and one to one projects across theatre, dance, installation, and film, and currently combines artistic creation with mentoring, accessibility advocacy, and her role as Artistic Director of FIAR Festival.
The process begins with an artistic collaboration with Diego Solano, a deafblind musician living with Retinitis Pigmentosa. As his visual field has progressively narrowed, Diego has developed new perceptual strategies — including synesthesia — that radically reshape how we both navigate and interpret our surroundings. Together, we generate alternative psychophysical maps that challenge the dominance of sight and propose more inclusive ways of relating to the world and to one another.
Drawing from these shared practices, the research experiments with exchanging perceptual filters and creating tools that expand the sensory experience of audiences. Reflex Actions is the first public manifestation of this ongoing inquiry: a work in progress toward a performative lecture that invites us to imagine new forms of presence and relationality.
Artist biographies
iara Solano Arana is a Spanish artist and researcher creating relational, transdisciplinary performance works centred on perception, the body, and audience experience. She develops immersive and one to one projects across theatre, dance, installation, and film, and currently combines artistic creation with mentoring, accessibility advocacy, and her role as Artistic Director of FIAR Festival.
Event Dates
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1st May 2026, 5:15pm |
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