May 2. Film at Weld. VOID / Irina Anufrieva (SE/BY)
On Sunday 2 May, a filmed documentation of Irina Anufrieva’s solo VOID is projected on the big wall at Weld. It will be shown for a full day. An intense visual and sounding meeting between dance artist Irina Anufrieva and voice artist Diamanda Galás.
Irina Anufrieva’s danced solo VOID is a performance based on Diamanda Gala’s music and film work Schrei 27 (1996). Anufrieva interprets the music and takes the theme further, processing torture in isolation.
In VOID the dancer embodies acts of torture enforced onto a human being as well as the physical and mental effects of it unfolding in time. On Weld’s raw wall, a filmed documentation of the solo is projected, which was shown live at Fylkingen in October 2018, filmed and edited by the artist piak.
To be in pain, but not be able to share or show, to feel isolated, but not have the ability to scream. There is something at the same time frightening and deeply human in the physical state Irina Anufrieva activates in the encounter with Gala’s multiphonic powerful voice, which allows pain to flow uncontrollably and helps to articulate others´as well. Piercing, guttural screams of pain, crescendos of raw human sound, visceral primeval calls and episodes of silence form the extended aria of pain – that is Schrei 27 by Diamanda Galás.
Dance and choreography: Irina Anufrieva
Composer (Schrei 27, 1996): Diamanda Galás
Costume: Joanna Bodzek
Light design: Josefin Hinders
Video and editing: piak
Void was produced and performed with the support from Längmanska kulturfonden, The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, and c.off.
IRINA ANUFRIEVA (SE/BY)
is an independent dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Born in Belarus, she was educated at SU-EN Butoh Company in Sweden (2004-2009) and InZhest Theater in Belarus (2002-2003), having background in classical ballet from The Youth School for the Arts, choreography department (1989-1997). From 2010 to the present she has worked as an independent dancer and choreographer. Her work has been presented at the Open Look Festival in St.Petersburg, Fylkingen and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Y Gallery of Contemporary Art in Minsk, among others.
Selected solo performances:
VOID (2013), based on Schrei 27 by Diamanda Galás, Embers (2015), based on Defixiones, Will and Testament by Diamanda Galás, Vidi Lacrymam (2016), In the Place of Dance (a 5-hour durational performance and installation, 2018).