Performative Workshop
Carrier Bag for Stories of Loss
Performative Workshop
Coordinators
Andreea Vladut
Christa Wall
Concept
In her essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin retells the evolutionary story of technology by centering the carrier bag, the net, the sling at the beginning of human ways of sustaining interaction. A narrative of domination is replaced by recalling one of sharing and responding.
The carrier bag gathers and puts in relation a collective gathering of stories of loss and vulnerability.
Opening up a space for carefully sharing our grief, vulnerability and to re-write our personal and collective stories of loss, we will be collectively writing and articulating a lament, exploring sound as a performative tool for loss.
Engaging a dialogue with our pasts and our shared futures.
Probing embodied utterances that invite us to inhabit sonic scapes of circular narratives.
Description
No. of participants: 10 participants
There is no knowledge required
Location: Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer, Domgasse 01, Kunstuniversität Linz
Subscription: Please send an email to mandi-andreea.vladut@kunstuni-linz.at
Schedule
Sa. 22. 04. 2023 10:00 – 15:00 Collective Writing
Introduction to vocal cord / throat massage
Guidance through mourning
Mo. 24. 04. 2023 10:00 – 15:00 Approaches on Collective Mourning
Di. 25. 04. 2023 14:00 – 17:00 Collective Mourning – Performative aspects
Mi. 26. 04. 2023 18:00 – 19:00 Collective Performance
BIO
Christa Wall
With a tentacular way of thinking, Christa Wall touches on the space between performance and singing, poetry and ritual, folk culture and queerness.
(Her/Their works are formed by performative research by using her voice(s), embodied knowledge, and video for watery storytellings.)
Her/Their work unravels aqueous poetic soundings and luring chants.
In her/their artistic research, narratives through soundscapes, song, video, and choreography that open up sites of collective fabulation practices are being unfolded. Christa relates (alpine) folk customs to queerness and infuses them with a pleasurable process of transformation until new performative rituals emerge.
Andreea Vladut
Andreea Vladut is a Romanian multimedia artist based in Linz, Austria. With a BA degree in Graphic Arts, University of Fine-Arts, Bucharest, RO, and a one-year Erasmus scholarship in Intermedia Arts, University of Fine-Arts Poznan, PL, she developed an interdisciplinary practice. Her interest in media and gender theory grew over the years during her studies at Time-based Media, Kunstuniversität, Linz.
Andreea brings to the foreground the raw unaltered sound of the environment, overlapping it with video images or filtering it through the materiality of the object.
Multimediality is a constant in Andreea’s artistic practice, who sometimes also chooses for unmediated actions, where the body becomes the stand on which conventional signs of language are inscribed or a source of meanings for raw experiences.
For three years, Christa Wall and Andreea Vladut have been collaborating on the Pneuma Lamentare project, a reenactment of the ritual of mourning into an audio-visual performative work. They are trying to find new forms and interpretations on the subject of professional mourners and mourning rituals. Whilst shedding light on the queerfeminist and queerdeath aspects and pathways of it.
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