With the performance Ralentí: ticking over, artist Natalia Domínguez explores the connection between masculinity, sound and collective identity — taking a non-binary, feminist perspective.

Shown first time during the festival Current — Kunst und Urbaner Raum (Stuttgart, Germany) , the title refers to the sound of an engine idling (ralentí) alluding to the practices of motorsports, where sound becomes an acoustic statement and performative moment of masculinity, power and control.

The performance uses sound as a medium to question the gender coding of technology. In an experimental composition, human voices enter into dialogue with engine noises: both as a sonic intervention, a political gesture, and a polyphonic, non-binary choral composition. By auditory means, the project demonstrates the interwoven nature of technology, gender and power, both materially and symbolically, while demonstrating their potential for recomposition.