Deva Schubert
missed tones (in the corridor)
SOMMERSZENE goes Kunstverein. The performance missed tones (in the corridor) stages communication as something perpetually on the verge of coherence. It proposes interruption not as failure, but as form. In the hiccup, in the stutter, in the shared melody that only exists between two voices, Deva Schubert locates a choreography of relations, one in which the connection is fragile and surprising.
Her piece is conceived as a voice and body score for two performers in the Ringgalerie of Salzburger Kunstverein: an architecturally specific choreography that moves along the corridor and asks the audience not to sit, but to follow. The performance begins with a sound somewhere ahead, around a corner, slightly out of sight. The audience orients itself towards a sound trace.
How can unreadability be produced through voice? The vocal material oscillates between the technical and the animalistic, the mechanical and the other-worldly. Clicks, breaths, glottal interruptions, tonal fragments, pulses that resemble malfunctioning systems or non-human calls.
“Eyes flicker; fingers tap; torsos tilt with mechanical precision. Movements resemble speech acts, yet remain undecipherable.”
– Deva Schubert
In Englisch
After Show with DJ Rova: 12 June 10 pm
Concept/performance Deva Schubert
In collaboration with Performer: Chihiro Araki
Outside Eye: Lotta Beckers
Costume: Madgalena Emmerig
Curated by Mirela Baciak
Comissioned and produced by SZENE Salzburg and Salzburger Kunstverein.
