Thz sharing MONICA photo credit Carmen Verdú

Sharing

Pablo Lilienfeld & Federico Vladimir

Monica: Stranded Statue

Stranded Statue is the third episode of Monica, a speculative telenovela that Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir will be working on during their two-week residency at Tanzhaus Zürich. Monica is the name of their two mothers. Both were born in Argentina in the 1950s, daughters of European war refugees, and both emigrated to Spain as adults. Moreover, both were image makers: Monica Lilienfeld's ecofeminist paintings and Monica Pezdirc's erotic photographs are the starting point of this speculative telenovela. In Monica, the heteronormative and teleological genealogy is subverted, forming a tentacular genealogy in which not only the epic of wars, migrations and other patriarchal-historicist narratives coexist, but also those that have been left out: expected and unexpected relatives, ghosts, lovers, viruses, gestures, songs and more.

The work-in-progress Sharing will be followed by a brief audience discussion.

  • Studio 2
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
    8037 Zürich
  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • This event is free of charge

By and with Federico Vladimir & Pablo Lilienfeld
Music by Pablo Lilienfeld & Federico Vladimir
Music composed in collaboration and sung by Sophie Taylor, Janet Novas, Cris Blanco, Adriana Reyes, Anaël Snoek, Mónica Kerner
Make-up artist Esther Quintas
Scenography Carmen Triñanes
Artistic advice Carina Erdmann
Genealogy advisor Regula Bochsler
Photo Carmen Verdú

Co-production Mercat de les Flors, workspacebrussels (Brussels) & C-TAKT (Pelt)

Residency partners Graner fàbrica de creació de Barcelona, Tanzhaus Zurich, Residencias Paraíso, La Poderosa, Auditorio de Tenerife, C-TAKT & workspacebrussels

With the support of The Flemish Authorities

Pablo Lilienfeld & Federico Vladimir

Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir have been together since 2014. The couple's work has become interwoven with their relationship: starting always from intimacy, in their pieces they explore representations of collectivity that question the hegemonic ways of narrating themselves. Their performances, videos, installations and games are tools for the creation of worlds and genealogies. Speculative fiction is the common ground in all their works, a terrain on which practices as diverse as synchronized swimming, raving or role-playing games intersect.