His practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social engagement, employing still and moving images, multimedia installations, placemaking, and sound-based performances as sites of contestation and testimony.
While J. Paris’s ongoing Investigation explores the entanglements between stigmatised social experiences and contemporary built-environments. He is particularly interested in immersing modes of historiography: archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.
Ultrasound Opera
Spatial Activation
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
The starting point for the performance essay is J Paris' earlier sonic lecture series titled 'Humming as a Praxis' where he attended gentle sonic gestures as tools for renouncing public corporations rooted in colonial thought [during 2024] at the V&A Museum in Kensington (London) and Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Belém (Lisbon); exploring sounding in these site's tragic economies.