Based on the research from Invented Anatomy, performer and creator Natalia Fernandes continues to define her poetics and project new ways (through words, images, and writing) of placing a body on stage. From this exploration emerges her new performance piece, Unidentified Object, where she reflects on the historical and social imagination that shapes how bodies are viewed.
Objeto não identificado
It’s the collective construction of a love song,
it’s an encounter that happened in 1500
but that also happened last week
and that will happen tomorrow,
it’s what we never saw
and what we see every day.
In the course of her research, Natalia Fernandes’ inquiries intersect with Marta Azparren’s reflections in Blind Cinema, a multidisciplinary project (book and performance) in which this visual artist analyzes how monochrome, emptiness, or pauses are needed to shift the register of event images within today’s viral overexposure, and how the absence of image returns to the emancipated viewer an awareness directed toward action.
The two artists come together in this first Diving space to share perspectives and analyze, in a performative lecture format, how voids and pauses in imagery also affect the poetics of dance.
Natalia Fernandes: Brazilian performer and creator who has been living in Spain since 2017. Her dance training has been developed between the university context (UNICAMP) and the contemporary São Paulo scene. She has worked with choreographers in Germany, Israel, Spain, India, etc., and as a creator and teacher in countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the USA. In 2017, she began her research on the Invented Anatomy method and began a series of works in Spain with Jesús Rubio Gamo, Celso Giménez/La Tristura, Poliana Lima, among others. Her most recent creation, El Carnaval No Es Alegre – TINY-DESK, premiered at the TNT 2023 Festival and at Conde Duque – Madrid. In 2024 she is a resident artist at Graner by public call, in the practical methodologies modality.
Marta Azparren: non-visual visual artist. She moves between experimental/expanded cinema, live arts and drawing. Her work is usually concerned with artistic activity, paying attention to the connections between creators, spectators, work and the internal machinery of mediation, production and exhibition. Her gaze is also directed towards the non-visual in the visual, that which tends to disappear. She is the author of the essay Blind Cinema. Stopping the Flow of Images, on monochrome cinema and images without images.
- Performative conference by Natalia Fernandes and Marta Azparren at El Graner
- Monday, November 18th at 6:00 p.m.
- Free admission
