PLATAFORMA BERLIN 2023
PLATAFORMA BERLIN is the decolonial and intersectional BIPoC/Latinx (Black Indigenous People of Colour/of Latin origin) springboard for, dance, performance, installation, documentary, discourse and screendance.
PLATAFORMA BERLIN -ANTI-COLONIAL BODIES-, assumes bodies as protagonist and overriding theme, exploring the present existential crisis of humanity in relationship with Planet Earth, linking the history and the future of human and non-human bodies, in the dawning of our ecological catastrophe.
The voices of BIPoC/Latinx in Berlin have long been ignored and our knowledge devalued, leading to predominant westernised discourses. PLATAFORMA BERLIN is committed to contribute to the possibilities of understanding bodies beyond white gazes and colonial labels, in an era marked by extractivism, patriarchal capitalism, white feminism and racist exclusion.
The artists invited to this 10th version of PLATAFORMA BERLIN, native to Bolivia, Mèxico and Perú, reclaim their sovereignty from colonial imprints. They embody the transmutation of colonial wounds while breaking the spell of colonial programming. The 2023 program ANTI-COLONIAL BODIES, unfolds new media, u(s)topias, female selfs, ceremony and temporalities in spaces that allow plural readings, at DOCK11 and Barazani Berlin.
The gathering brings awareness to artists and activists working with ancestral technologies that have been distorted by neocolonialisms and cultural appropriation. Historically, underrepresented BIPoC/Latinx communities have had to tolerate negatively impacted environments, much more than white Eurocentric bodies. Intersectional discourses have increased demand for multicultural inclusion; the augmentation of alternative epistemologies and ways of cohabitation, as well as non-white ecological, geopolitical and ontological frameworks.
The intercontinental encounter makes a transdisciplinary reflection on the human body, creating a movement of Amazons & Shamans, proposing actions to address the way in which we affect society with our myths, rituals, animality, and statements of progress.
PLATAFORMA BERLIN is an initiative of BIPoC/Latinx curator Martha Hincapié Charry, together with a group of local artists and institutions including Barazani Dock11, Uferstudios, Radialsystem, Instituto Cervantes, Mime Centrum, Goethe Institute and Ibero-American embassies.
Plataforma 2023 is produced by Valeria Oviedo,Lina Gomez and Martha Hincapie Charry.
PROGRAM
double bill:
SEGUIR/To Follow
+ Recuerdos del Presente/Memories of the Present
03. / 04. / 05. August 2023, 7pm
NON FUCKABLE TOKENS (NFTs)
06. August 2023, 7pm
NON FUCKABLE TOKENS (NFTs)
Triggerwarning:
The content of this performance can be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with for some audience members. It will make use of complete nudity and contains non-explicit material related to rape culture.
How does the development of new technologies shape our self-perception? NON FUCKABLE TOKENS (NFTs) is a performance by Claudix Vanesix, XR artist from Peru, that combines Performance Art with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to critically display the impact of technology in our era. The work explores the development of internet culture from a decolonial feminist perspective, making explicit the misogyny that underlies in digital spaces. This performance also reflects on how futuristic narratives can be in dialogue with ancestral identities.
*Following the performance we invite to ANTIKOLONIAL BODIES / Activism, Collective Feminism, BIPoC Futurism, a conversation with Areli Moran, Claudix Vanesix, Sharon Mercado Nogales and Martha Hincapié Charry
Director: Claudix Vanesix
Production: AMiXR
Music: Jorge Pablo Tantavilca
With the support of Teatro a Mil Foundation, Goethe-Institut, Sala de Parto
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Claudix Vanesix (they/them), XR artist and performer from Peru, combines immersive media with machine learning and performance art to reflect on internet culture, algorithmic patterns in society and the impact of new technologies on indigenous identities.
The works have been presented in galleries and festivals in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Co-founder of the collective AMiXR.
