Azahara Ubera. Tender Friction

Tender Friction is a choreographic installation in which human characters lose themselves in a queer game where their identities and desires are shifted and shuffled in a quest for radical imagination. The tools they play with are hair brushes, care, pleasure and their relations with Plants.

Tender Friction is a poetic exploration of queer ecologies, kinship, and embodied resistance. Through performance, text, and movement, the work imagines alternative futures rooted in tenderness, friction, and fluidity. It invites us to rethink intimacy and care beyond binaries, weaving connections between bodies, landscapes, queer culture and more-than-human worlds.

Azahara Ubera is artist, choreographer and researcher. Their work is deeply rooted in queer and feminist culture, drawing significant influence from her studies with philosopher Paul B. Preciado. At the core of their practice lies a commitment to activating care and centering otherness—crafting collective (with more than humans) sensorial experiences through performance, experimental pedagogy, and somatic inquiry.