Double bill: Tempo~orale by Eva Šusová & Angelo Custodio + Recognized by Marjolein Vogels & Coralie Vogelaar

This program is part of Polyphonic Songs

Tempo~orale 

It began with an interest in developing a physical-vocal practice that allows all the voices, actual and virtual, of bodymind to resonate and be exteriorised as such. In this performance, we incorporate the most vulnerable voices that are not yet shaped into the signifier, such as language but are materialised in uncanny sounds and combinations of words. “It’s time?” “What’s the tempo”? – Indicates the start of the performance. A performer suggests a dynamic tempo that allies the cacophony of our voices and supports the performers as they are live scoring and using defined strategies that complicate and denounce hierarchies and value systems of “staging”. The tempo is maintained across the performance reinforcing what we identify as “the spiral”, the vulnerable exchange of bodily reading of current events. We focus on the movement of the mouth as the most apparent cavity that echoes the junction of our internal and external desire. By combining physical presence with imagery we speculate of a place of allowance, resonance and sensational transmittance. 

Concept: Eva Šusová | Development and performance: Angelo Custodio and Eva Šusová | Photo: LAZOO | This project is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts). 

Eva Šusová and Angelo Custodio 

They met in the Master of Voice, a temporary program of the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, initiated by Lisette Smits, Paul Elliman, Marnie Slater and Snejanka Mihaylova. This research-based Fine Arts program quickly became their first dialogic event on critically exchanging knowledge regarding performative practices. In both of their cases, such practices move across various fields – classical singing, choreography, dance, visual arts and writing. Working through connecting “bodymind”, they share and nourish a queer utopian desire for thinking with embodied knowledge. With their art practice, they create forms that speculate, apply and fantasize of other social structures. Their consistent interest in contaminating physical practices with theory, and vice versa, led them to collaborate on the multidisciplinary project Tempo~orale. Eva and Angelo bring their feminist and queer/disable perspectives to dialogue while tuning in and not harmonising.