H(a)unting Songs is a research and creation project that departs from the nineteenth-century Brazilian opera Il Guarany to investigate how colonial imaginaries embedded in its narrative can be re-voiced as sites of critical and sensorial disruption. Taking the operatic narrative as a trace of historical violence as well as a seed for speculative recomposition, the project treats the libretto as an operative language system, displacing it into prompts, scene descriptions, and stage directions, and foregrounding language as a shared apparatus between opera and contemporary algorithms. Focusing primarily on the opera’s choral fragments, the work seeks to create a performative and sonic environment in which extractive infrastructures and contemporary technological systems remain in friction, and asks what other songs might emerge as myth, mineral, and machine echo through one another.

The residency at BUDA continues an ongoing research process focused on prompts, librettos, and choral structures, now entering a phase of performative assembly. Work at BUDA will contribute directly to the development of H(a)unting Songs toward its premiere at MMMAD Festival in April 2026.

Túlio Rosa (BR)

Túlio Rosa is an artist and doctoral researcher at PhDArts at Leiden University/Royal Academy of Art The Hague. Combining writing, visual, and performative practices, his work proposes a critical and sensible approach to the history of colonialism and explores the possibility of rewriting personal and collective stories as a gesture of reparation.