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A Carpet of Lungs with VEZA FERNANDEZ & ONEKA VON SCHRADER

Research Project
Week 3 10:00 – 16:00

Veza and Oneka are two anatomy and voice enthusiasts that create practices together through imagination, vocalisation and touch, dreaming what the somatic could be beyond noodling around in oneself. They think somatics should not be exclusive to the dance class, training or bodywork, but could be researched as a powerful performative and poetic tool. Conceptual somatics and imagination are seen as a form of embodied and performative study, that questions the anatomical body and stays fluid and interconnected, learning while it is becoming. Somatics in dance should be questioned as it is full of violent and controversial stories around the ideologies behind our corporealities. 

In this research project an exploration that is not lonely, but shared, focusing on invisible yet concrete forms of sociality and play is proposed. Singing, writing and dancing together become forms of processing and generating knowledges. Through listening and touch, the group twists somatics, bringing movie landscapes into the lungs while turning them into carpets big enough to fill a whole studio. Participants breathe each other in, an unhygienic thought. Aerosols spread in the room anyways. What is the meaning of letting each other in and out? Any form of touch and of voicing is a form of listening. Any form of listening, an extension, an inclination. It is the art of attending that will be practiced in this research laboratory. Practicing to navigate alternative ways of intelligibility.

Veza and Oneka will share a set of tools to activate the listening that takes place when attention is put to organs and ideas of organs. Participants will explore them with our voices and their performativity, stimulating visceral imaginaries of corporealities. What does it do to the voice to intentionally touch another body? How do we study intimacy, relationality through it? How can we develop a playful connection with our voices and let these become additional ears, hands, limbs and lungs yearning to touch and being touched?

Touch, in this workshop, is largely based on Shiatsu techniques, which consist of a respectful, guided, listening, connecting form of touch. Mostly without a specific aim, to heal or directly change something in someone else’s body. As not everyone likes to be touched, touch exercises can be adapted to touch from the distance. Participants will be guided to ask for consent before practicing.