WE ARE WE
WE ARE WE
Performance by KUKII with the Piccoli Cantori di Torino choir
An event by OGR Torino as part of the Public Program of the exhibitions ELECTRIC DREAMS and WE FELT A STAR DYING.
Tuesday May 5 2026 | 7 PM
Binario 1 | OGR Torino
KUKII, singer, composer, and producer of the soundscape for Laure Prouvost's We Felt A Star Dying, presents a performance that transforms the audience into active participants in an immersive sound experience.
To create the soundscape of the installation, KUKII drew on recordings of devotional singing traditions from across the world. These sounds were processed through a custom quantum AI model, generating sonic textures interwoven with melodic choruses featuring lyrics by Laure Prouvost and Paul Buck. The performance takes place on the floor, inviting participants to leave behind what they brought into the space and to reimagine themselves as a we. Audiences are guided on a collective cosmic sonic journey inspired by the original music of the work.
The central theme derives from Laure Prouvost's phrase WE ARE WE, at the centre of the exhibition and her interpretation of quantum physics. Through this performance, KUKII invites the audiences to embody this mantra.
KUKII
KUKII is an artist reborn from the heart of the bustling streets of Cairo, forged in an inferno of pride and resilience. Her music is a battle cry, a call to unity that challenges listeners to transcend boundaries, question perceptions, and launch themselves into new territories. KUKII invites introspection, encouraging self discovery as a path to liberation. Born from the ashes of the artist known as Lafawndah, KUKII originates from a return to Cairo, where she discovered a particular affinity within part of her extended family and her roots. She is the living spirit of an Egyptian aunt turned icon: a pioneer who rediscovers her origins and transforms them unapologetically. KUKII is the result of an explosive fusion: MIA, Sherine, and Siouxsie Sioux colliding in the back seat of a mauve Chrysler LeBaron, speeding through Cairo with mahraganat blasting from the stereo, while Pharrell watches the scene stopped at a red light. She is the fierce emanation of Meredith Monk and Janet Jackson reinventing the soundtrack of AKIRA. KUKII embodies Genesis P Orridge and Gwen Stefani embracing on the peaks of the Alborz mountains in Iran, immersed in the sounds of qawwali.
CORO DEI PICCOLI CANTORI DI TORINO
The Piccoli Cantori di Torino children’s choir, founded in 1972 by Roberto Goitre, is the core of the association of the same name, which also includes a music school and three additional choral ensembles, and represents a national benchmark in the field of children’s and youth voices. The choir currently consists of approximately 42 singers aged between 9 and 15. Since its foundation, the choir has collaborated with RAI, Unione Musicale, Teatro Stabile, Teatro Regio di Torino, and MiTo Settembre Musica; it has performed with OSN and OFT, taken part in concerts, festivals, and series across Europe, created the international festival “Voci in movimento,” and won a Creative Europe grant. The choir has also performed at the 2006 Olympic ceremonies, with the singer Elisa in 2011 and with Robbie Williams in 2014; it has appeared on national television programs, staged several chamber operas, and recorded numerous CDs. The choir is currently conducted by Elisa Dal Corso, with musical supervision by the association’s artistic director Carlo Pavese; it is accompanied by pianist Gianfranco Montalto and vocal coach Marcella Polidori, joined in recent years by Irene Barbiera. Among its most recent engagements are participation in MiTo 2021 with the ensemble Brù and in MiTo 2023 with Laura Curino, the recording of the album Giro Giro Canto 8 dedicated to Gianni Rodari for the national choral federation Feniarco, and the opera I due usignoli by Nicola Campogrande, collaboration with the Finnish choir Vox Aurea in 2022 and 2023, and with Bob Chilcott for the concert Songs of Change, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the choir’s founding. Among the most significant projects of 2024 are the writing, by the singers themselves, and the production of the performance “Il canto del Nilo,” for the bicentenary of the founding of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. In 2025 the choir travelled to Muscat, Oman, for the Pipe Organ Concert at the Royal Opera House, and to Wolfenbüttel, Germany, for the international Eurotreff festival. It has also begun a collaboration with the Cor Infantil de l’Orfeó Català of Barcelona, which will lead to a performance next July at the prestigious Petit Palau concert hall.
The Associazione Piccoli Cantori di Torino is a social promotion association (APS) that promotes and spreads the practice of choral singing among children and young people. It develops its work through the quality of its main choirs, the Piccoli Cantori di Torino and the Giovani Cantori di Torino, and through the wide range of offerings of its Music School, which provides courses for ages 3 to 14 in the Turin area with constantly updated pedagogy.