Lara Ferrari – tummma

Lara Ferrari – tummma has a Master in Spatial & Visuals Arts from ISAC, Belgium & Lic. and graduated with a degree in Choreographic Composition from UNA, Argentina. 

Her practice focuses on performance and writing as activators that generate states of empathy, vulnerability and fragility in the body. Working from the commitment to think from affections and sensitive practices as a politics that enables dissimilar perceptive modes and builds other ways of relating to each other and to the environment.

Since 2017 she has been working with Josefina Imfeld in the collective Métodos de supervivencia, developing performative practices and fragile encounters. Their current work Synchronization Practice, a practice for a remote encounter, counts with the support of the Metropolitan Found of Arts (Arg) and won the National Found of Arts (Arg) for the creation of a book to share these practices.

Lara holds a lic. in Choreographic Composition in Expresion Corporal at UNA, Argentina. Master in Visual and Spatial Arts at ISAC, Belgium. She participated, and participates, in works, residencies and projects working in collaboration with different artists in the fields of dance, performance and fiction writing. Among them with Carolina Mendonça, Carly Rae Heatchote and Cathrin Jarema.

Her work was presented at Kunsthaus (Zurich), KVS (BRU), La Mansa Mansión (Arg), Beursschouwburg (BRU), Gessnerallee (Zurich), Hamlet (Zurich), Topic (Geneva), among others.