Decolonial and intersectional BIPoC/Latinx (Black Indigenous People of Color/of Latin origin) platform for dance, performance, installation, documentation, discourse and screen dance.
PLATAFORMA BERLIN makes the body the protagonist and overriding theme while exploring nowadays geopolitical issues, connecting ancestrality with the future of human and more-than-human bodies in the twilight of ecological catastrophe.
PLATAFORMA BERLIN creates a movement of intercontinental Amazons & Shamans proposing geopolitical actions that address the way we influence society with myths, rituals, animality and statements of progress.
The artists invited to this 11th edition of PLATAFORMA BERLIN, from Mexico, Zimbabwe, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia and USA, make a transdisciplinary reflection on the current existential crisis of humanity, while embodying the transformation of colonial wounds in the twilight of ecological catastrophe.
Festival website: plataformaberlin.de
PLATAFORMA BERLIN is an initiative of the BIPoC/Latinx curator Martha Hincapié Charry in collaboration with local artists and institutions such as Barazani, Radialsystem, Instituto Cervantes, Uferstudios Berlin, Mime Centrum, Goethe-Institut and Ibero-American Embassies and in co-production with DOCK ART.
PROGRAM
1. / 2. August 2024, 7pm
[Description see text below 👇]
FILM > Todd Tourso: Sleep Now In The Fire
DANCE / PERFORMANCE > Cuatro x Cuatro: ¿Qué puede un cuerpo?
VIDEOSCREENING > Regina Jose Galindo: Carbón para encender el fuego
double bill: DANCE / PERFORMANCE > Valentina Wong: Ren / McIntosh Jerahuni: L'apres-midi d' un Faune
VIDEOSCREENING > Carolina Caycedo: Sacrificio Recíproco
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1./ 2. August 2024, 19 Uhr
¿Qué puede un cuerpo?
Cuatro x Cuatro / México
LEIB is a performative investigation that uses the body as the basis for sensitive thinking and encounters with the other, with the world, and that deals with four questions: What can a body do? What does a body want? What can a body endure? What does a body forget? These questions move between the abstraction of Spinoza and Nietzsche and the knowledge that the members of the collectives of the disappeared in Mexico have.
A knowledge between the limits of empirical, mystical and metaphysical experience and science, between intuition and technology, between premonition and knowledge.
LEIB is a CONJURO that finds in artistic practice the ideal territory for growth, it seeks to evoke polyvocal and collective physicalities that whisper with the wind, with dreams, with the night, with trees and flowers, with the sun.
In dance it finds a vital place where another world is possible, or at least the way to perceive and relate to it. LEIB is CONJURO for all those who have disappeared to return home.
Concept, choreography, direction: Melissa Herrada, Shantí Vera
Art direction: Arturo Lugo des de Tun Project
Light design: Melissa Herrada, Jésica Elizondo
Dramaturgy: Sendic Vázquez
Sound dramaturgie: Manuel Estrella, Fermín Martínez
Photo Paulina Cervantes / Maremoto Producciones
Video: Fernando Frías/ Maremoto Producciones
Production: Centro de las Artes de Playas de Rosarito, Danza UNAM, Centro Cultural Helénico, Fabrik Potsdam, Programa MEGA del Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC) & Cuatro X Cuatro.
Duration: 50 min
Sleep Now In The Fire
Todd Tourso / USA
The short film directed by Todd Tourso explores the concept of liberation theology and was inspired by Tourso’s work with Rage Against The Machine. Christianity is a source of hope, strength, and identity for a large part of the world’s population and its iconography changed the art, beliefs and traditions of many native cultures. Western religion is also one of the greatest tools of oppression. The Crusades were the blueprint for the colonization of the Americas. „Sleep Now In The Fire“ reframes the archetypal story of a suffering God resurrected, into a metaphor for the liberation of the poor and politically oppressed. Shot on location in Tlalnepantla, Desierto de los Leones, Nezahualcoyotl, Chimalhuacan, and Playa Chacalacas during the summer of 2022; the film is a visual meditation on death, rebirth, and resilience.
Todd Tourso is a director, filmmaker and art director based in Los Angeles, USA.
instagram.com/toddtourso
Duration: 9:52min
Carbón para encender el fuego
Regina Jose Galindo
Every war brings us closer to darkness
standing
in the middle of a coal volcano
in the midst of uncertainty
in the middle of a conflict
every war separates us from humanity
and brings us closer to death
and in death
in violent death
there is no light.
Commissioned and produced by PAV Torino, Italy 2022
