Laura Fjäder
1 June 2020 – 15 July 2020
Laura Fjäder (Asturies, 1973) is a feminist writer and researcher who graduated in Social Work. She has focused the practice of this discipline on gender counseling and the management of community cultural initiatives.
She develops the Dissident Muses project which, from poetics, feminism, visual and performing arts, seeks to generate non-normative artistic discourses. The Menstruosity and EllaFeroz capsules belong to this project, which are presented to the public at the Muyeres Fest (Oviedo, 2017), Museo Barjola (Gijón, 2018) and Gala Elles (Teatro Palacio Valdés, Avilés, 2018).
She is a regular contributor to current affairs publications, radio and cultural magazines. For more than a decade she has participated in ephemeral creative spaces and coordinates the feminist poetry event Lobulo y Sentido.
He has published the collections of poems Will Scarlet was no god (2016), Nudo de venas (2018), both in
Suburbia Ediciones, and The Perfect Insects (Ed. Torremozas, 2019).
In 2020 he completed a residency at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial during which he developed the hybrid piece Lugares Anfibios. It is presented within the Noche Blanca program (Plat0 Laboral Centro de Arte, September 2020) and is part of the Art in Residence 2020 exhibition.
She currently focuses her research work on transcultural spaces of affective ecology, the taboo associated with women’s bodies in old age and their representation in arts and literature.
Project in residence
Musas Disidentes. Fase II. Lugares Anfibios.
The participation of women in the creation of symbolic imagery was reduced for centuries to the oral transmission in the private – domestic space, the home, of stories, fables and legends impregnated with patriarchal burdens. This has also guaranteed the survival of the patriarchal framework: indoctrinated from childhood through symbols that are assimilated, internalized and, finally, reproduced.
Deconstructing symbolic capital from feminism is an essential condition to rewrite ourselves outside of brutal, reifying, limiting canons. Also to get rid of taboos and dynamite this system of binary hierarchies that does not represent us from the foundations. It is urgent to name and rename.
Dissident Muses. Phase II. AMPHIBIAN PLACES, will start from feminist critical discourse and research to produce a piece BodyVoice articulated on poetic text, dialogue with space and motor skills. Exploring the right to anger, multifocal realities and the plundering of affects, the aim is to create a discursive space that , from self-reflection on the powers of the bodies, attracts towards the experience of the bond as conflict.
Selected project from the 2020 Call for artistic residencies.
