Weaving spinal voids is an installation and movement of bodies, which represents the collateral tide of concessions, desires, and approximations that articulate possibilities for belongingness. The work begun with a year long practice of walking to collect found objects on abandoned areas in the city of Vienna. The material gathered was used to sculpt a large soft organ connected to five long spines.
The spine is an axis for the human structure. It's a system: bone joints are held together by a tissue called fascia, a membrane composed by string diagrams similar in principle to the drawing of an embroidery knot. It's an interesting image to dive into, fabulate through and expand while thinking of civic participation.
The spine is one's singular center. And does it end on the tail bone? physically yes, but not in this fiction. In this performative context, it becomes a symbolic figure - a collaged limb - which can grow onto the tail bone of someone else. A prosthetic organ which can be worn to hold bodies as a rhizome, making structures of dialogue within a community visible.
The wearable sculpture appears as a connecting tissue between dancers. And the movement score unfolds as an embodiment of collectivity while reflecting on drift exercises inspired by Francesco Carerri ideas. As he encourages to "use the walk as aesthetic practice and a form of civic art. Way to explore the neglected zones of urban peripheries, or intersectional voids of urban archipelagos. To draw new paths among this fragmented territory. Made from islands of densities, interruptions, wastelands, and voids. To recognize the value of these underflying zones. And encourage a more inclusive experience of the city."
Title / Weaving Spinal voids
Concept / Luiza Furtado
Performers / Frederike Gordillo, Leandro Barros, Luiza Furtado, Ziilia Qansura and Thomas Vava.
Camera / Fedor Handzo
Music / Francesca Hirschl
Year / 2023
Weaving Spinal Voids 2023. BCMA, Berlin. Soft sculpture (aprox. 150x200x50cm). @Alessandro Albrecht
Hybrid Viscera, 2024. Live performance, Vienna. @Joana Pianka