Veza Fernández invites the audience to witness her live practice of staging her acoustic horns. Imaginary instruments that she is developing in dialogue with Leonora Carrington, her speech therapist, and the characters that resonate within her from the eardrum of the unintelligible. Acoustic horns or ear trumpets are strange tubes and conduits that grow from the deepest anatomies of communication. She seeks to capture, process and amplify that which we struggle to hear, teaching us to sustain the fragility of verbal connection. Veza proposes a morphological dance that articulates itself to give way to a voice that sings from its most remote limits, learning to narrate from beyond the voices that we dare to learn to listen to.
→ Veza Fernández is a choreographer, dancer and researcher based in Vienna. Her work sits at the intersection of dance, voice, writing and performance, exploring listening as an aesthetic, political and affective practice. Through a choreopoetic research into imaginary anatomy, resonance and bodily imagination, she develops stage devices that invite us to inhabit the body as a space of transformation and relation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam) and has presented her work at international venues and festivals such as Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, Sophiensæle (Berlin), deSingel (Antwerp), Gesnerallee (Zurich), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Dansa Metropolitana (Barcelona) and Impulse Festival (Düsseldorf). Her most recent works include Suspírame Lira and Chantal, el cuerpo es un texto que anhela perspectiva, works that intertwine anatomy, fiction, singing and queer thought through a deeply embodied practice.
→ This presentation is part of Veza Fernández’s residency at nunart, within the framework of Changing Spaces Vienna–Barcelona, a bilateral artistic exchange programme between nunart and Im_flieger (Vienna) that promotes research, mobility and exchange between artists.
