Feb 19. Tova Gerge+Uri Turkenich/ Leo Correia de Verdier/ Talking&Props
Sewing machine concert with Leo Correia de Verdier, Soup, Talking & Props – a method with invited guests: Livia Pravitz and Michele Masucci. Tova Gerge & Uri Turkenich – Where Were We
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at 6pm Tova Gerge & Uri Turkenich – Where Were We
Speaking is not only about the words; it is also about the performance of speaking. With ”performance” we do not only mean the gestures, melody and meaningful pauses of speech, but also that there is a performative aspect of speaking. Through speaking, something comes into being. Speaking honestly, being in the moment with speech, can give life to things that we didn’t know existed before, or give words to things unspoken, or open up deep territories in and in between us. We explore these territories. We speak of moments, which are capturing for us. We perform the beauty in honesty. Honestly.
Choreography & performance: Tova Gerge & Uri Turkenich. Also involved in the process were Marika Troili and Sofie Anderson.
Co-produced by Skogen. With residency at c.off and Weld. With support by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
TOVA GERGE (SE)
is a performer, writer and project manager active primarily in the fields of theatre and dance. Her artistic interests often concern questions of power, body politics and subversive intimacy. The last five years, she has worked with interdisciplinary performances in Sweden and internationally. Among other things, she is a member of the performing arts collective Nyxxx (see nyxxx.se), exploring different aspects of voice-induced choreography and audience participation.
URI TURKENICH (IL/DE)
is a choreographer, writer and artist. He graduated from the MA program for Choreography at DOCH Stockholm under the direction of Mårten Spångberg. Since then he was working as a performer in various projects and curating art-events and conferences. In his own works he is concerned with notions of history, change and desire. Around these notions he makes art-works alone and in various collaborations and encourages a development of discourses.
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at 5pm-5.45pm Talking & Props – a method
You remember it, the object. It reminds you of having been in contact with another human. It resonates as you remember it. It affects and leads further on. What does the object do with you? Notice this relation and tell someone about it, what happens when somebody else pronounces such a presence?
This method emanate from Talking & Props (Weld autumn 2016) – a festival with works that in varying degrees negotiated with the materiality of enunciation and the words of the material. What does this do to us?
As last time, the method is performed in Weld's foyer.
Invited guests: Livia Pravitz and Michele Masucci
Concept: Anna Koch and Frida Sandström
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at 4pm Concert: Leo Correia de Verdier
Since it was invented in the late 18th century, the sewing machine has become one of the world's most popular musical instruments. Every day, millions of people make music with their sewing machines, but few have taken their musicianship to a professional level and presented it to an audience, perhaps due to the low status of the instrument.
LEO CORREIA DE VERDIER (SE)
is one of the world's foremost sewing machine players, trained at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Using modern technology, computers and sequencers she has developed sewing machine music in new directions, taking it to a whole new level.
Leo plays a Brother LS-2125, a traditional electric sewing machine with a rather powerful and clattery sound otherwise associated with heavier machines. Her music is highly structured, with shifting rhythmic patterns and a sound world rich in detail.