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ORAL FRICTIONS (with Vaim Sarv)is an evolving performance lecture focused on queering oral traditions from the Baltic Sea region. The work is a mischievous search for historical consciousness about these divergent vocal and bodily practices – against the grain of nationalistic, Eurocentric narratives. It’s about singing and storytelling and dancing as work, as physical and social labor, as communal practices that renew our ties to each other and the more-than-human landscape.
This time around we’ll be hosting a listening session. Ingredients? Two CDJs, beloved archival recordings, and a host of critical fabulations blurring past and present, personal and political, fact and fiction. It will be hot and dirty and definitely traversing ancestral terrain.
Vaim Sarv is a chronically ill vocalist, organizer, and writer. She is a student of the oral tradition of Estonian runosong which he interweaves with acoustic, bodily noise music and free improvisation. Mutating her voice with extended vocal techniques, his sensual and abrasive sound is interrupted by stories and spoken word. Her performances are gatherings which amplify the disruptive and celebratory power of shared physical experiences. He sings of land and kin, speaks of dispossession and desire, makes sounds of solidarity and silence.
Performance at 19:00
Tickets: 5€ on the door.
FREE ENTRANCE after 20:00!
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Uus Laine, Vana-Kalamaja 1,Tallinn, Estonia
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