In the performative research entitled “As Water Sings the Bone “, Irena Z. Tomažin and Jule Flierl continue their work with voice, movement, sound and space, this time with the theme of domestication or alienation of the (own) voice. The whole process will be characterized by an obsession with the recurring question: “Who has a voice?” – and the temporality of answers as rhetorical questions: “Does (s)he who speaks, shouts and sings have a voice? Or the one who listens and (over)hears? Who is the prisoner and who is the user of voices that are deliberately overheard and unheard? What and how about the responsibility of what is heard and over-heard?”. In the research, the authors will move between the embodiment of the silenced through movement or dance and the vocal compositions, which lose their “red thread”, between sound, word and singing of “those old songs”, which unfold the layers of the history of everything (un)said.
Authors: Irena Z. Tomažin, Jule Flierl
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Sploh Institute
Financial support: Ministry of Culture Slovenia, City of Ljubljana
Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, experimental singer and philosopher who works in an experimental theatre and music context. Her work has been analyzed by Bojana Kunst (The Voice of the Dancing Body) and Sophie Herr (Geste de la voix et théâtre du corps), among others, and her essays on vocal philosophy have been published in various art publications. She 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 a physical form.
Jule Flierl studied contemporary dance at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and choreography at EXERCE Montpellier and has worked as a dancer with Bryan Campbell, Martin Nachbar, Ibrahim Quarishi, Tino Sehgal and Meg Stuart, among others. Flierl uses somatic singing methods, the so‑called “Lichtenberger Method”. The friction between her training in various contemporary dance techniques and her vocal training paved the way for her choreographic works that explore voice as dance.