November 2017

Nov201710(Nov 10)18:30(Nov 10)18:30MinoFormat:PerformanceKünstler:Michèle Magema (COD)ticket18:30 - 19:00 SAVVY Contemporary, Plantagenstraße 31

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Michèle Magema wanders through a snowy mountain landscape and in her performance, follows the trail of Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, the leader of the Dahomey Amazons, also known as the Mino. In the nineteenth century, the Mino were an organised army of women who defended the King of Dahomey (today’s Benin) against the French colonial powers. As she put together her research material, Magema traced a line from the melting mountains of Greenland to the sand dunes of the Sahel zone. Linking these extremes, she creates a space between desert and ice, past and present, utopia and reality, in which the idea of another form of community becomes possible.

Michèle Magema, born in 1977, is a performer, video artist and photographer from the Congo. She emigrated
to France as a child and in her work she addresses colonial pasts and questions definitions of identity based on cultural and national attributions. Magema has shown her work in 2007 at the Global Feminism exhibition, organised by Elizabeth A. Sackler in the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, among other places.

 

Wed. 08.11.17, 6 pm, SAVVY, 30 min

Fr. 10.11.17, 6:15 pm, SAVVY, 30 min

Concept and Performance: Michèle Magema

Music: Baben Sissoko

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