hair pulling (WT)
Time to Meet · Showing
by
Virginnia Ogechi Krämer
In the frame of Emerging Change Prologue
Screening / Performance / Interactive Artist Talk
„hair pulling“ (wt) dissects questions around an individual as well as collective Black, possibly queer pattern of behavior; hair pulling/hair thinking/hair thinking. As an everlasting political issue, a source of knowledge and a learning site for Black history(s), for ways of taking care of oneself and others, Afrohaar becomes the starting point of this process. In doing so, this sometimes takes into account the physicality of the process: When do I pull knots out of my hair? Why do we pull knots out of our hair? What happens mentally, physically, hair-wise in the process? How does the process correlate with racism-based stress? What does hair pulling sound like? Why does my upper body usually lean to the left during pulling? What can we learn about pulling, searching, parrying, waxing, and the power of our fingers? „hair pulling“ plants the hair aspect in the context of a practice developed based on my choreographic research process on blackness and being adopted; roots (past), present (body) and future (hair) structure different performative and somatic approaches that flow into each other according to the afrofuturist principle and are mutually dependent.
24.05.2023 Artist Talk after the performance
„hair pulling“ (wt) dissects questions around an individual as well as collective Black, possibly queer pattern of behavior; hair pulling/hair thinking/hair thinking. As an everlasting political issue, a source of knowledge and a learning site for Black history(s), for ways of taking care of oneself and others, Afrohaar becomes the starting point of this process. In doing so, this sometimes takes into account the physicality of the process: When do I pull knots out of my hair? Why do we pull knots out of our hair? What happens mentally, physically, hair-wise in the process? How does the process correlate with racism-based stress? What does hair pulling sound like? Why does my upper body usually lean to the left during pulling? What can we learn about pulling, searching, parrying, waxing, and the power of our fingers? „hair pulling“ plants the hair aspect in the context of a practice developed based on my choreographic research process on blackness and being adopted; roots (past), present (body) and future (hair) structure different performative and somatic approaches that flow into each other according to the afrofuturist principle and are mutually dependent.
24.05.2023 Artist Talk after the performance
Virginnia Ogechi Krämer
Virginnia Ogechi Krämer (they/them) is a performer, writer, facilitator, and parent. Their interests range from embodied social justice to afrofuturism to cultural identity-focused artistic research and ritual. 2022 they were seen in their first solo „auf den weg zu mir/auf den weg zu dir“ at Sophiensaele, an installative performance about afrogerman poet May Ayim's poem sein oder nicht sein. In spring 2023 Virginnia was artist in residence at Emerging Change/Tanzfabrik Berlin where they presented their solo “hair pulling” (WT). Together with femBlack Performance Collective they premiered with their first production “another space/memory” at Berliner Ringtheater in Fall 2023. Their work currently emerges into new unknowns with a profound urge to integrate loss, genocide and (be)coming together. @dreamingginni
Tickets: Admission free – First come first serve
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Duration: approx 1 h
Concept, research, performance: Virginnia Krämer
Camera/editing: Yagi Taffere
Outside eye/mentoring: Valerie Renay More tba
Supported by Emerging change residency curated by Nara Virgens & Makisig Akin
Camera/editing: Yagi Taffere
Outside eye/mentoring: Valerie Renay More tba
Supported by Emerging change residency curated by Nara Virgens & Makisig Akin