Soledad Zarka & Loup Uberto
Starting from the voice and Italian folk music, with improvisation as a means of reapproaching tradition, Soledad Zarka and Loup Uberto present a sound and dance performance dedicated to the gestures of labor.
In the same way that labor songs support physical labor, Loup and Soledad seek movements that support the voice and sounds that activate the body.
🔷 Soledad Zarka approaches everyday gestures and objects as vectors of a collective, silent memory. In the streets, in the city embrasures, she shows aporetic fables to those who pass by, seemingly banal images that soon become overwhelming, disturbingly familiar, and suspended, just like that, on the threshold of representation. By considering the familiar object and the everyday gesture as two terms of the same experience, she reveals their symmetry: the object is the appendage, the extension of the gesture, and vice versa.
🔷 Loup Uberto leads singing into ever poorer forms, far removed from the concert, using the concert as a tool of sabotage which, turned in on itself, should break the illusion of a boundary between the time of performance and that of everyday life.
🔷 Loup Uberto has already met with the KET audience on two different occasions: with a simple, stripped-down solo performance centered on his voice and his unique approach to his Italian heritage; and then with the group Bégayer, in an evening of experimental chanson that took the form of an explosive, almost ritualistic punk-vaudou performance. These two appearances highlighted different aspects of his practice — something that is also expected to happen now, through his collaboration with Soledad.
It is undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary forms of the French experimental scene.