Hearing the wild heart ©Alexander Zehetbauer
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
WATER / PERFORMANCE / PUBLIC SPACE05.2021 – 06.2021
Nadalokal will welcome Alex Franz Zehetbauer (born 1990 in Brooklyn) a sonic choreographer, performance artist, and singer based in Vienna. He works from a body and a world that is full of noise. In his pieces Alex often incorporates water as a material, but also as a source of inspiration for choreographic strategies. Alex has a love affair with melody and often places the melodic voice in strange or unideal situations for sound production. Alex sees the sonic body as a highly physical one.
Projects:
Brunnentroll & Hearing the wild heart
Brunnentroll Brunnentroll is a watery pathway of 6 short concert performances in 6 different public fountains. Fountains are performative, they activate water and give it choreography, offering a space for people to gather. Brunnentroll takes advantage of this reality by putting itself in-relation to the performative architecture and “audience” of public fountains. The watery environments of the city’s fountains are explored through a playful concert performance. Brunnentroll embraces the reality that the human body is made up mostly of water always leaking and emerging through relation. When we sweat, when we swim, when we drink, we are constantly engaged in a very personal hydrologic cycle. When I play in and with a fountain, its waters are quite literally changing me, and I it. This project is powered by KÖR.
Hearing the wild heart “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.” —Octavia Butler In the concert performance Hearing the wild heart, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, together with the performer & drummer Stina Fors and the musician & sound engineer Christian Schröder, birth a world of beautiful noise. Based on the concept of “worlding” and the figure of the troll, Alex examines symbiotic and queer ecologies and creates a sonic universe that abolishes the boundaries between subject and environment. Two performers are embedded within an abstract wetland landscape. A leaky universe of liquid, giant viscous blobs, shiny hard metal, rough malformed plastics, and waterfalls of fog. What we perceive on stage is never first a subject or an object, but rather an ecology. All that the performers touch, they change, all that they change, changes them — All that the environment touches, it changes, all that it changes, changes it.
Alex Franz Zehetbauer is trained in Aguahara and offers private sessions of his own take on this aquatic bodywork, incorporating his lexicon of underwater voice explorations and their capacity to caress the physical body. Alex studied vocal performance, dance, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. He has shown his work internationally, examples include: Dixon Place [US], Theater for the New City [US], CAVE [US], Azores Fringe Festival [PT], Dansmakers [NL], Szene Salzburg [AT], ImPulsTanz [AT], brut Wien [AT] and has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Richard Foreman, Alix Eynaudi and Mary Overlie. Alex has been awarded the BKA Startstipendium für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (2018), the TURBO Residency – ImPulsTanz (2018), the TQW Training Scholarship (2019), and the danceWEB Scholarship (2019).
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https://alexfranzzehetbauer.com/ //
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