hair pulling (WT)
Time to Meet · Showing
by
Virginnia Krämer aka Ogechi
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 Krämer aka Ogechi
Virginnia Krämer aka Ogechi (she/her) is a performer, dance facilitator, interdisciplinary artist, and mama. Significant aspects of her work include embodied research, healing practices, and an attempt to use words (spoken and written) as containers for inventories and nuances of these processes. 2022 year Virginnia Krämer was featured in her first solo “auf den weg zu mir/auf den weg zu dir” at the Sophiensälen. She collaborated with Nima Sené on this multimedia, installation-based performance referencing the poem of the same name by Afro-German poet May Ayim. As a co-founding member of the FemBlack Performance Collective, Virginnia was part of Afropolitan's performance residency. She has collaborated as a performer at Kampagel, GropiusBau, Uferstudios, as well as Ballhaus Naunynstraße and Etage, and has directed various projects at the intersection of artistic research and dance education. She is currently curating a decolonial movement laboratory by and for Black adopted people with the support of Dis-Tanz-Solo as well as the #takeheart research funding.
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