BLACK RESISTANCE PRACTICE 1
Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald
This is an exploration of Black resistance practices across time and territories.
Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Naledi Majola and Sointu Pere invite the audience to enter an improvised landscape drawing on diverse stories from Africa and the diaspora about the myriad ways of resisting oppression. These forms of resistance, from spontaneous armed rebellions to organised military battles and generations-long struggles to preserve identity and dignity, provide important inspiration today if we are willing to listen.
This project was developed as part of the „New Techniques“ residency programme at sophiensælen. Using methods of Afro-diasporic exchange and improvisation, the artists developed a collective practice to create a group that performs, moves, builds and resists together.
Concept: Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald
Creation, Performande: Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Naledi Majola, Sointu Pere
Dramaturgical support: Dr Joy Kalu, Julien Enzanza
Genre: Performance
Duration: 50 min
FERAL
Josefina Cerda
This vocal performance explores the processes of sexualisation, objectification and the empowerment of personal pleasure. Through her personal narrative, the performer shares her journey from a hypersexualised childhood to adulthood, exploring ways to find pleasure through dominance, sex work and BDSM.
In this intimate performance, live sound is interwoven with sex technologies to create a narrative in which FERAL becomes a defence of the object against the human.
Design, performance: Josefina Cerda
Make-up: Pedro Gramegna, John Alvarez.
Prosthetics: O'Ryan Lab
Administration, production, distribution: Ébana Garín and Roni Isola – Fundación Cuerpo Su
Genre: Performance
Duration: 30 min
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Artist Talk following the performance on September 6
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CV:
Colleen Ndemeh lives and works in Berlin. She has a Master's degree in Performance from the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT). A multidisciplinary performance artist, activist and cultural worker, she is from USA/ Liberia of Kpellean and Irish-American descent and works internationally on artistic and political issues of feminism, anti-colonialism and blackness.
CV:
Josefina Cerda is a performer, sound designer, creator of erotic content, and associate member of Fundación Cuerpo Sur, where she studied acting, art theory, history, sound art, and archival studies. Through her interdisciplinary work, she explores the relationship between the body, sexuality, archives, sound and fantasy, examining themes of lust, love and power dynamics from critical and sensory perspectives. Her personal and professional practice includes virtual sex work and exploring domination and BDSM practices in intimate, professional and performative contexts.