13 SEP 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
U.F.O: Homage to Katalin Ladik
Irena Z. Tomažin (SI) / Jule Flierl (DE)
Performance
Duration: 60 min
The Hungarian-Serbian poet and performer Katalin Ladik is considered the “Yoko Ono of the Balkans” and a pioneer of noise and performance art in Southeastern Europe: With the “SoundBodyPoetry” of her radical body art performance UFO Party from 1969, she shook the artistic scene at the time and established methods of experimental voice work and physical performance already in the 1970s.
In their first collaboration, German sound dancer Jule Flierl and Slovenian choreo-vocalist Irena Z. Tomažin celebrate their shared interest in Ladik's artistic position: a homage that blurs the boundaries between poetry, acting and experimental voice work, while continuing the two artists' own research into the physical experience of language and the articulation of different layers of the voice.
PRESS
“A sound-performative homage weaves threads and connections between two points in history and between three creative works in order to paid tribute to the pioneering work of the artist, but not to make it hers to leave the heritage in the past, but to offer it the modern perspective.” - Maša Radi Buh: United Female Obstacles, Sigledal, 13.10.2021
”…the haptic and auditory components of feeling merge into a violent complexity of a level of communication that goes beyond the human and beyond the auditory. How familiar this foreignness, full of aliens, became to me, it is difficult to describe without betraying that I slipped home with a feeling of deep kinship, which is almost the most that can be achieved in today's accelerated reality by some practice in witnessing.” - Urban Belina: Raztelešeni spektralni glasovi, Neodvisni 22.11.2021
“It gets even better when Tomažin starts to distort the letters U-F-O into rattling, flapping sounds. It is a virtuoso concerto that addresses unusual zones of the vocal range. The excitement that arises in this way, and also visibly spreads to the audience, finally discharges into a long, spinning, unisonous movement. In this way, despite some lesser, somewhat tedious moments, this performance became a beautiful tribute to Ladik's oeuvre, which wanted to set voice, body and mind in motion. That happened here too.” - Pieter T’Jonck: UFO - Hommage to Katalin Ladik, PZAZZ Theater, 29.3. 2022
CREDITS
Concept, choreography, performance: Irena Z. Tomažin, Jule Flierl
Light: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Nicola Ratti
Costume: Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Historic advisor, dramaturg: Kata Kasznahorkai
Organiser: Brigita Gračner
Photo: Dieter Hartwig, Sieke Kröne, Anja Weber
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek, Zavod Sploh / Špela Trošt
A production by Irena Z. Tomažin + Jule Flierl in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE (Berlin), Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), Charleroi Danse Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen). Supported by Hauptstadtkultur Fonds.
Presentation of this performance within HERE:2023 is funded by European Union Creative Europa project Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery.
BIO
JULE FLIERL
Jule Flierl studied contemporary dance at SEAD-SALZBURG as well as choreography at EXERCE Montpellier and has worked as a dancer with Bryan Campbell, Martin Nachbar, Ibrahim Quarishi, Tino Sehgal, Meg Stuart etc. Flierl works with a somatic voice method, the "Lichtenberger Method". The friction between her training in diverse contemporary dance techniques and her vocal training paved the way for Flierl's choreographic works that explore voice as dance. STÖRLAUT (2018) reflects her research on Valeska Gert's sound dances of the 1920s.
IRENA Z. TOMAŽIN
Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, experimental singer and philosopher working in the experimental theater and music context. Her work has been the subject of analysis by Bojana Kunst (The voice of the dancer) and Sophie Herr (Geste de la voix et théatre du corps), among others, and her writings on vocal philosophy have been published in various art publications. She has released three albums: Crying Games, Taste of Silence and Lump in the throat. Her work is a consistent exploration of the non-linguistic voice as a medium in corporeal performance.