Community in dissonance: inspired by the archaic (and, across cultures, predominantly female) tradition of public mourning, Deva Schubert devotes herself to the voice, or more precisely, the lament, as a collective technique of mourning. With the tool of the “glitch” – the interruption or faulty transmission of an image or a video – she deconstructs an Italian lamento. Usually a strictly digital, intangible phenomenon, Schubert and her co-performer Chihiro Araki make the glitch audible, visible and palpable in dance through their bodies and voices. Glitch Choir invites the audience to understand disruption as an opening, in which complex, resistant and historically oftentimes disregarded forms of grief can be expressed. The mumok’s white cube becomes a resonance chamber where discords and jarring notes form a collective song.
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest Performance Fund for Dance International, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Concept and choreography: Deva Schubert
Performance: Chihiro Araki and Deva Schubert
Guests: Johanna Ackva, Lotta Beckers, Francesca Ferrari, Magdalena Forster, Lo Höckner, Julia Müllner, Hyeji Nam, Marta Navaridas, Lina Venegas, Tony Wagner
Music and sound: Davide Luciani
Lighting design: Hannah Kritten Tangsoo
Costume design: Ama Tomberli
Dramaturgy: Lotta Beckers
Research and outside eye: Jette Büchsenschütz
Residency: Something Great – International Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts at Schloss Mentin
