Márcia Mendes - Textile Artist / Maria Amor I Oro - piano / Sara Congost Adel - guitar

During this week, Márcia Mendes, Maria Amor I Oro and Sara Congost Adel will be in residence at Noef Noef Atelier, developing their artistic research and preparing their final performance, What Holds.

Weaving and sound have always been intertwined. From winters spent harvesting and rhythmically beating cotton, to evenings of singing while spinning fibre; from women’s circles exchanging stories or passing on knowledge to future generations, to a more solitary practice of thinking by doing. Threads are lines both concrete and symbolic, that carry sonic memory. “What holds” is an improvisation that explores tension as a shared condition between weaving and sound. In both practices, tension is what allows structure to emerge, shaping rhythm through resistance: it gives resonance to strings and sustains the warp. A piano, a guitar, and a metal structure composed of heddles (an essential part of pattern formation on the loom) are activated as resonant bodies and manipulated using tools such as needles, a bow, and magnets. If tension is one of the conditions that allows structures to resonate, what kinds of structures are we sustaining today? In a time no longer guided by natural cycles and an absence of direct relationships with world material, what methods can we create to repair and redefine these structures from within?

Sunday, 23 August
• Performance What Holds
CHF 25 — regular
CHF 5 — students / KulturLegi
pay what you can
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