LACALLE is a performative-urban project initiated in 2010 by Anto Lloveras under the experimental label TOMOTO FILMS, emerging from an urgent artistic and political intuition: to return poetic action to the street as a form of civic presence, affective protest, and spatial listening. Rooted in the collaborative matrix of Maite Dono (voice), Hectruso (MiniRoc system) and El Intruso (live sound), LACALLE unfolds as a series of mobile performances across different Spanish cities—Ferrol, Madrid, Gijón, Sevilla, Almería—where the act of walking, sounding, and speaking becomes a situated reappropriation of public space. The MiniRoc, a wearable sound apparatus carried like a backpack, is more than a tool—it's an expressive prosthesis that turns the performer into a walking amplifier, a poetic antenna. Each episode—filmed and archived by Tomoto—transforms overlooked urban environments into sites of encounter and disruption: from whispering to a market wall to amplifying voice in a salt mine or a decaying square, these gestures are minimal yet deeply charged, forming a poetics of the infrastructural. LACALLE doesn't merely use the city—it talks back to it, revealing its textures, wounds, and latent memories through sound and speech. Influenced by psychogeography, performance art, and street poetry, it positions poetry as politics, where the right to express, to sound, to linger, and to modify perception becomes an act of resistance. As a conceptual framework and open series, LACALLE proposes a method: listening as action, dérive as authorship, and the voice as a tactical claim to the urban commons.
