Places of Belonging

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	free of charge
	14 years and older
	Portuguese
	German and English Subtitles
	Ground Floor, Hall 3
	Part of: 99 Questions

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“To restitute is to return or restore, to appropriate is to take possession of, to possess is to own.”

Not simply objects have been taken, but reserves of energy, creative resources and alternative forms of the real. Their absence represents mourning, a struggle over an absent body and a longing for memory and touch. In this performance, memory-making is the active work: the past is revisited with the images and ideas of today. Touch of the fragmented (hi)stories is the undercurrent, linked with feelings of ownership and (be)longing: a reawakening of cultural consciousness and a sense of connectedness.

Reflecting on the “diaspora” of the displaced objects and reclaiming their narratives, as narratives originating from or belonging to our specific cultural times, spaces and places, Places of Belonging engages with re-appropriation as a process of cultural repossession, reconnecting our bodies and spirits to this heritage as a form of healing and liberation, using video, contemporary sculpture, sound and spoken word.

Tila Likunzi

On Friday, 28th of October, the performance will be followed by a talk with the artists and curators.

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Jaliya The Bird is a writer, poet, storyteller from Angola who is passionate about freedom and authenticity, living life from the core of who we are as we respond to the causes that move us. The artist creates within the concept of [Inter]Sessions: UnSpoken Words. [Inter]Sessions is about provoking, celebrating, releasing emotion and thought through storytelling, writing, poetry, and performance art. Primarily, it explores Womanhood, Blackness, Africanness and how these factors individually or collectively shape how one experiences the world. The work creates a space where history, politics and anthropology intersect. [Inter]Sessions aims to be intimate and challenging. Her video-poetry for her spoken word piece Idle Worship, directed by Ariel Casimiro via Usovoli Cinema, won several international awards. The artist finds storytelling to be revolutionary and tells stories to disrupt, destroy, build narratives, and archive existence.

Jaliya The Bird

Tila Likunzi is an independent curator from Angola, living and working between Luanda and Bonn. Active since 2017, she has worked with C&, Jahmek Contemporary Art and Fuckin’ Globo. In 2021, along with Iris Buchholz Chocolate, she co-founded the online research and publication platform for art and cultural learning – Lugânzi, The Living Archive. In addition to curating contemporary art from Africa, she is dedicated to the self-guided study of contemporary African philosophy, belief systems and ways of being. Her curatorial practice is a process of research, focused on share abilities between contemporary art, critical theory and decolonial practices. Apart from writing, she pursues sound, orality, video, photography and film as artistic and curatorial languages.

Iris Buchholz Chocolate is a visual artist born in Germany, living and working in Luanda and Vienna. From 1999 to 2005 she worked as Executive Director of Camouflage Brussels – the European Satellite of the Center of Contemporary Art of Africa, where she co-curated a major collection on contemporary African art. She has since participated in major group shows in Africa, in the Americas and in Asia and she also represented Angola internationally. She has held four solo shows in Luanda. In collaboration with Paula Nascimento, she took part in the 17^th Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021. She is founding member and artistic director of the artistic initiative Lugânzi, The Living Archive, a research platform for art and cultural learning based in Luanda, Angola. Her work ranges from drawing to video art, including installation, objects, and photography.

Mwana Pwo is a visual artist from Angola. She works with photography, video and installation. In her photographic work, she actively records the multiple dimensions of the individual being, while capturing the depth of contemporary social reality with intensity and a contrasting gaze. Through her work, she also presents a feminist examination of social roles, experiences and personal histories. Her visions are expressed primarily through documentary photography and fine art portraiture.

Lilianne Kiame is a freelance architect and designer from Angola. She earned her Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Cape Town, including Dean’s Merit List 2016, 2017. As a researcher she currently prepares for her Master studies. She is highly interested in urban interventions and designs that have the potential to improve the living conditions of the deprived urban neighborhoods of her home city Luanda, focused on a particular interpretation of local traditions to propose an alternative modernity based on the tropical climate and ecological standards, responding also to climate change.