Tova

The mul­ti­me­dia flute recital TOVA is the result of close col­lab­o­ra­tion between flutist Ania Kar­pow­icz and young com­posers: Mar­ta Śni­ady, Nina Fukuo­ka, Alek­san­dra Kaca and Teoni­ki Rożynek.

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Mar­ta Śni­ady in “4 rit­u­als of wom­en’s hap­pi­ness” under­takes a reflec­tion on the con­tem­po­rary cult of the body — present, among oth­ers, in social media — but not in a jour­nal­is­tic con­text, but in a reli­gious one. The word rit­u­al, which has become estab­lished in aes­thet­ic med­i­cine offices, returns in the work to its basic meaning.

Nina Fukuo­ka in “Zan­sei” inter­prets the phe­nom­e­non of mul­ti­cul­tur­al, mul­ti­di­men­sion­al, undis­cov­ered and mys­te­ri­ous iden­ti­ty with which we are born. “Zan­sei” means “last years”, in the work they are read as an attempt to escape oppres­sive real­i­ty and to expe­ri­ence the “remain­ing years” in har­mo­ny with one’s own nature.

Teoni­ki Rożynek in “SCREAM” lists vari­eties of scream­ing, both the loud, pierc­ing kind and the silent one, deeply ingrained in wom­en’s expe­ri­ence. A cry as dis­agree­ment, for­ev­er silenced, penal­ized, direct­ed inward caus­es even greater devastation.

Ola Kaca in “Inner” turns inward, seek­ing inti­ma­cy and close­ness in inter­sect­ing sounds. From doc­u­men­tary shots of skin with vitili­go, or body destroyed by preg­nan­cies, she draws ref­er­ences to sim­i­lar tex­tures in nature, which in anoth­er con­text we per­ceive as beau­ti­ful, har­mo­nious and valuable.

TOVA is a joint search by the soloist and com­posers around the son­ic val­ues of the flute — both acoustic, relat­ed to expand­ing and devel­op­ing con­tem­po­rary per­for­mance tech­niques, and elec­tron­ic, relat­ed to var­i­ous tech­niques of pro­cess­ing live and record­ed sound.

The TOVA pro­gram had its dig­i­tal pre­miere at the Sacrum Pro­fanum fes­ti­val in 2020, and its first stage per­for­mance at the KODY fes­ti­val in 2021, since then it has been pre­sent­ed in Poland, Ger­many and Norway.

More infor­ma­tion at: www​.tovapro​ject​.art.

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Program

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Realization

cos­tume: Lud­mi­la Bubano­va
video: Mar­ta Śni­ady, Fil­ip Bojars­ki, Izu­mi Yoshi­da, Alek­san­dra Kaca, Karoli­na Sała­jczyk
visu­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion: Karol Tomo­ki Yamaza­ki
sound direc­tion: Kos­ma Standera

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After the con­cert, we invite you to the open­ing of an exhi­bi­tion by Ľud­mi­la Bubánová “In the evening I will put on her face”. The open­ing of Ľud­mi­la Bubánovová’s exhi­bi­tion will take place on May 25 at 8:00 PM, and on May 26 and 27 you can vis­it her inter­ven­tion­al pop-up stu­dio from 2:00 PM — 8:00 PM.

Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the City of Warsaw.

Tickets

30 PLN