HJP is an Angolan art and research practitioner dissecting philosophical, architectonic and scenographic frameworks in relation to enacted modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. His work seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially engaged practices, using mixed media installations, placemaking, dramaturgy and still-moving-images as sites of contestation.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Paris’s ongoing doctoral investigation traces the entanglements between stigmatised contemporary built environments and social experiences. It attends to immersive modes of historiography, archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.

Victoria & Albert Museum
Contemporary And
Rimas e Batidas
Ableton

Ultrasound Opera

Spatial Activation

Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.

In dissemination of touch in its sensorial, operational and dimensional driving forces; drawn from structures in the Black family, institutional orchestrations and systems of labour surrounding it: interplaying possibilities for epistemic rupture. The iteration journeys through ideas beyond 'service', 'server' or ‘servitude' staged in the context of Galeria Municipal do Porto at the multifaceted site converted onto a playground and auditorium designed by Monica de Miranda.

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.

HENRIQUE J. PARIS

Ultrasound Opera