Live-Stream Video Voice Performance (20mins)
“Tesknota” is the Polish term for nostalgia.
Tesk-nota draws on the themes of the "stray" in a vocal sound journey across the physical and psychic terrains of the body as a resonating surface and loci — a geographic excavation for mined material. Shreds of story, scarred utterances, broken sounds offer glimpses of recognition that even so, remain lost islands. Though not necessarily (always) melodic, this "music" is melos, cadence — starting with, staying with, and following the task of the note: Tesk-nota.
A performer, director and scenographer, Sharon Feder creates cross-disciplinary theatre, performance and installation. Her devised work explores the site of convergence of different artistic forms, new and old sound and image technologies, Whether created for a stage, a gallery or site-specific, Sharon's work puts the body on display in atmospheres of felt reflection, critical risk and inspired intensity drawing on both improvisation and structure, strategy and surprise. She has treated varied themes from the memory of the holocaust in Testing, to homesickness in Nostalgia Trip Tic, and the transformative process of creation in Destruction Etc. Her current work, live-stream voice performance, Same Same, was born of her experience as a mother of a non-verbal child.
Sharon A. Feder Vancouver, Canada
“Tesknota” is the Polish term for nostalgia.
Tesk-nota draws on the themes of the "stray" in a vocal sound journey across the physical and psychic terrains of the body as a resonating surface and loci — a geographic excavation for mined material. Shreds of story, scarred utterances, broken sounds offer glimpses of recognition that even so, remain lost islands. Though not necessarily (always) melodic, this "music" is melos, cadence — starting with, staying with, and following the task of the note: Tesk-nota.
A performer, director and scenographer, Sharon Feder creates cross-disciplinary theatre, performance and installation. Her devised work explores the site of convergence of different artistic forms, new and old sound and image technologies, Whether created for a stage, a gallery or site-specific, Sharon's work puts the body on display in atmospheres of felt reflection, critical risk and inspired intensity drawing on both improvisation and structure, strategy and surprise. She has treated varied themes from the memory of the holocaust in Testing, to homesickness in Nostalgia Trip Tic, and the transformative process of creation in Destruction Etc. Her current work, live-stream voice performance, Same Same, was born of her experience as a mother of a non-verbal child.
Sharon A. Feder Vancouver, Canada