Ablandar

Faced with the imposition of a single permitted reality.

Faced with the triumph of a single hard and inflexible vision of the human.

Softening our presence becomes a weapon, an alternative of how to be in the world in the face of a rigid and violent system.

Dysphoria, derealisation and depersonalisation reveal the softness of our bodies, of our identities, softening reality and preconceived discourses about the human.

These experiences of those who were never part of reality: the dissidents of the cishetero-western system, fictionalise other ways of being in the world.

Softening bodies, softening languages, softening discourses, entails twisting the linear orders and anthropocentric meanings that dictate our experiences as humans.

To soften means to unveil messages that reason and logic avoided, and therefore, to offer a threat against that which was imposed on us through the violence of discourse and the body.

Iver Zapata is a choreographer and performer. His interest focuses on the sensitive experiences of the individual and society. By bringing the body into various theories of thought, he conceptualises the body as the centre of discourses. In doing so, he mobilises the emotional guts of these theories.

Mouræ is the sound and performance project of Lois Búa (Muxia - La Coruña, 1996). Revisiting folklore and mixing it with electronics, she proposes new realities that speculate with possible futures, generating sounds and atmospheres that transport us to hidden dimensions of our everyday life.

Links of interest:

Iver: instagram @iver.z

Mouræ: instagram @mouraemourae + soundcloud.com/lois-bua

By: Iver Zapata + Mouræ