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.
SEGUIR/To Follow
SEGUIR/To Follow, Stages a body that demanded patience and appreciation trough the recovery of surgeries to remove endometriosis and tumours. It is about the female self, identity and resilience in a body that is transforming while ageing, while living, while dancing. On this work I take space and time for a ritualistic momento to honor my body and women’s body, while dancing on stage with a shimmery yet dangerous company.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Areli Moran
Sound Composition, Performance: Samaquias Lorta
Dramaturgy: Sasha Amaya
Object realization: Areli Moran in collaboration with Daniel Montiel
Sound Collaboration: Rodrigo Zarate
A production by Areli Moran and ESPACIO EXPECTANTE. Supported by Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima, Manifestaciones del Cuerpo. Creation process supported by Secretaria de Cultura de Mexico, FONCA; Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
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Areli Moran is a Mexican, LGBTQ+ performer, choreographer and cultural manager based in Berlin. Her creations present visually powerful perspectives on current feminist and political topics through deep autobiographical excavation. Her work has been presented in Mexico, Canada, Berlin, Denmark and Spain where she also developed diverse artistic collaborations. Her connection to Mexico continues as an artistic director of the multidisciplinar studio Espacio Expectante that she founded in 2017 and Festival Artes Vivas in Monterrey, Mexico. Since her arrival in Berlin Areli has been supported on different occasions by the Federal and State founding bodies of Germany and premiered her first German production at Tanztage in Sophiensaele Berlin, 2019.
Recuerdos del Presente/Memories of the Present
Two beers to start and two beers to continue, I want to go home....
Recuerdos del presente insists on the rhythm of the Andean Cumbia and its tonalities recalling nostalgia during celebration. A space that puts in dialogue three elements that emerged from the research: the cumbia, the ch'alla and the party; these create an intermediate space where different imaginaries and narratives meet, having at its center the contradiction - opposition sadness/happiness, loneliness/companionship. The performer explores a re-encounter with traces of family parties, shared intoxications, zapateos rompe taquito that go through an exercise of memory and from a feeling of nostalgia the social is re-defined through the symbolic.
Concept, Performance: Sharon Mercado Nogales
Dramaturgy assistance: Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo
Mix & Production: Caballo en L/ La Perla Andina
Music references: Amor Sagrado- Chuxña Manzana, Tayhana- Negra Brava, Chuquimamani Condori- Live set 2020, Mix Las culisueltas, Mix huayño Zapateo Ronisch, Sharon Mercado Nogale- Dame Veneno (Prod. Caballo en L/ La Perla Andina)
Stage design, Lights: Sharon Mercado Nogales & Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo
Costume: Sharon Mercado Nogales
Video: Producciones Maxilogos 3D
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Sharon Mercado Nogales Choreographer/ Dancer from the Andes- Bolivia based in Berlin. She studied at the B.A. Program HZT Berlin and at the Wayruru Project in La Paz. In her work she incorporates autobiographical material that goes through an exercise of memory, with the aim of creating body practices. She constantly seeks to provoke the current cultural spectrum through the body, working with the resignification of her materials. She is currently part of the collective Moviendo Territorios and the dance collective cobracobra. In 2020 she developed the dance practice "Technocumbia'' inspired by the 90s contest "Sábados Populares”. Her works were presented in Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Peru, Chile and Spain.
