Transformative Narratives (Lena Kuzmich & Tony Wagner) in collaboration with Gerard Valls Montaño, Cris Anutoiu, Martin Eichler

Lena Kuzmich,

Tony Wagner,

Transformative Narratives – a collective founded by Tony Wagner and Lena Kuzmich – initiates performative and audio visual experiences through trans-disciplinary world-building. Linking stories, moulding characters and shaping glimpses of imaginary landscapes, the collective seeks to unravel transformative forces of the self and the power of collective growth and radical care. Mutualism and symbiotic strategies are core topics and methodologies applied to combine experimental music with visual arts and text. The projects initiated disclose the queering of relationships and notions of kinship, weaving personal stories into shared performative experiences.

Tony Wagner (they/he) is a musician and artist whose work establishes connections between soft and harsh sound and opens zones for the exploration of care and exaltation. Dealing with loss, lust, pain, desire, queer joy and transformation, Tony’s sound-, text- and performance pieces seek intensities. In music productions, sensitively constructed vocal sample arrangements topped with spoken texts are contrasting rhythmic noise productions with distorted glitching vocals. As co-founder of the music label Tender Matter, Tony is promoting and highlighting the work of queer, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming artists in electronic music.

Lena Kuzmich (they/no pronouns) is a non-binary and multidisciplinary artist. Their work, a fluid remix of photographic and videographic fragments, sketches visions of multi-species worlds. Imaginative landscapes, hybrid representations of bodies, and technology all become a portal beyond preconceived notions about the world and our identity in it. Within their practice, they strive for trans-disciplinary approaches with research based on multi-disciplinary hopping. Eclectically, they collect contents from science, art, social theory, pop culture, subcultures, and historical myths to assemble collage-like worlds through the use of various editing software. Found footage is combined with own creations and photographs to assemble new contexts and stories. In their work, imagery from „obscure“ internet forums meets that from scientific databases in an aim to dissolve scientific hierarchies and constraining cultural narratives.

Works
Residencies

2023

Antre Peaux