LAB: 19-20 August | 10-16h
PERFORMANCE: 23 August | 20h
Isu Mignon Mignonne is the performance persona of Isu (it/its), an artist based in Berlin. ‘Mignonne’ here doesn’t stand for ‘cute’ in French but for ‘crazy bitch (미친년) in Korean. Influenced by queer subcultures and the club kid community, Isu likes to play between subtlety and extremity.
Analu (he/him/they/them) is a nonbinary~transmasc~dykefairy, meme lover and gay advocate currently based in berlin. he sees himself as an artistic all-runner, ranging through a medley of visual mediums that seem to continuously increase. for the past years analu’s work has been shifting abruptly, highly focusing on their embodied experience as a trans(mutated) body. through these experiences, transness, fantasy, sexuality, sensuality and care have been in the center of his inspirations and creations. as an expression of radical love and of community, they keep wishing for more togetherness and embracement as a reflection of interdependent societies.
ORIGIN OF VOICES & ORIGINAL VOICES
LAB: 19 – 20 AUGUST | 10-16H
In the workshop “Origin of Voices & Original Voices “, we aim to share the practices that allow the participants to question the external constraints imposed on their voices. We invite the participants to discover a new relationship to their own voice by proposing 2 practices from our creative process.
1. Disillusioning lip-sync: We propose the participants to experiment with different approaches to lip-sync technique. Rather than creating an illusion of singing to another person’s voice as in conventional lip-sync, we want to question how this illusion is created. “There is always something totally incongruous in the relation between the appearance, the aspect, of a person and his or her voice, before we adapt to it. Every emission of the voice is by its very essence ventriloquism”. By taking this statement of Mladen Dolar to heart, we would like to problematize and re-imagine the ties between different vocal characteristics and different identities.
2. Counting in monstrous voices: the participants will be invited to explore the spectrum of physicalities of their voices. We will share the basics of guttural voice techniques. By distorting their voices while counting numbers, we intend to create a space where the participants can experiment with their voices against the fear of sounding absurd or funny. With this ‘counting ritual’, we invite the participants to discover different constraints which condition their voices and explore the spectrum of inexpressive vs. expressive use of their voices. Ultimately, we want the participants to be surprised by the unfamiliar sounds that their voices can become.
MIRI NÉ SORI
PERFORMANCE: 23 AUGUST | 21H (DOUBLE BILL with Mehdi Dahkan)
Miri Né Sori translates to “Milky Way sound” in Korean. In the Pan-asian myth “The Cowherd and the Weaver”, appear two lovers who are separated by the Milky Way on opposite ends of the sky. They can meet only once a year by way of a bridge made of magpie birds. Starting from this (im)possibility of achieving the state of completeness, Miri Né Sori explores the encounter of different voices stemming from two bodies that constantly elude identifications. The overlapping voices become the wave that oscillates between the inexpressive (such as counting) and the expressive (such as humming and screaming), and travels across the borders of (mis)identifications.
CREDITS
Concept, performance: Isu Mignon Mignonne
Performers: Analu, Isu Mignon Mignonne
Dramaturgy: Evgeny Borisenko
Costume: Don Aretino
Light: Catalina Fernandez
Sound composition: william ‘bilwa’ costa
Research support: Sandra Noeth, Diego Agulló and Danilo Andrés
The poem “The Sunrise Ruby” by Rumi is used during the performance.