In this episode you will hear Maria read seven texts from Words that sense their weight, Bodies that write in space, together with a sound recording from a walk she took in evening of April 15th 2023 around Brinellvägen 58.
Maria invites you to listen to this episode using headphones and in a comfortable position such as sitting or laying down. She anticipates that choosing a public or private space with a still or moving landscape could perhaps be a playful add-on to tune into this audio piece.
“Words that sense their weight, Bodies that write in space” is a publication conceived as a choreographic gesture that simultaneously anchors and destabilizes aspects of my artistic practice. It is composed as a dance and/or as a collection of dances which may manifest themselves in different tempos, be they physical or imagined. Some are ongoing, some have ended, others overlap or will begin as soon as the reader meets the pages of the book. It is an object that wishes to gather, expand, dissolve, and spread-out thoughts and movements on paper. A reflection on artistic practice, ephemerality, and plasticity."
In her artistic practice, Maria researches the notion of plasticity to unfold relations between things and beings inviting movement around and through them. This work draws influences and support from neuroscience, new materialism readings and gender and queer studies.
Maria Ferreira Silva, starts her artistic journey at the age of six performing at the local auditorium in the suburbs of Lisbon. She holds a dance degree from the National Conservatory of Lisbon and P.A.R.T.S.,Brussels. She defines her artistic practice as as a porous container with the ability to carry a vibrant ecosystem inside where different practices, roles, and contexts, nurture and feed-forward her entanglement with the dance field. Alongside developing her choreographic work, she is currently dancing in Studio Cité by Benjamin Wandewalle, Twenty-Seven Perspectives by Maud le Pladec, The Köln concert, Monkey off my back or the Cat’s Meow, The House of Bernarda Alba, and The Romeo by Trajal Harrel/Schauspielhaus Zurich for whom she also works as a rehearsal director.
