Visceral Session
with Veza Fernandez
Fri, 21.03.2025, 4 – 7pm
No registration is required.
Participation is free of charge.
The visceral session is an ongoing choir-study-group through which dance, voice and performance artist Veza Fernandez shares and thinks further tools for learning by ear what hegemonic thinking cannot reach. That is, those places we yet do not know how to listen or give voice to. It is a listening where understanding collapses and fails, so we need to find an ‘each other’. Through different bodily and imaginary forms of vocalizations and singings, as well as bodily expanded listening practices in the group, the session provides a space to learn and practice from the realm of the sonic, the visceral and the resonating. Learning how to support and amplify each other.
The visceral choir forms every session anew. The group is open and there is no previous singing experience required.
The visceral session takes place inside and in the framework of the solo exhibition Silent Spills I by choreographer and performance artist Deva Schubert.
Veza Fernandez is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of vocal expression as a place of relation, imagination and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of melodramatic voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background stretches between Philology, Pedagogy, Theater, Music and Contemporary Dance. Fields that in a way or the other influence her artistic researches and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. Her work is strongly rooted locally, infiltrating from within the underground scene into bigger Dance and Theater institutions.