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For a week, young people explore the public space around URBANEO, discovering street names and squares such as Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama and Amerigo Vespucci. They ask themselves: what stories lie behind them? They trace the past with a critical, curious and playful approach. At the end, they transform their impressions into a performative audio walk in which they bring colonialism, decolonisation and places of remembrance to life with their voices and their presence.
Artistic Director: Yolanda Gutiérrez
Which monuments are missing in public space?
Over the years, I have been given the opportunity to leave a trace in public space that creates a decolonizing gaze. Together with dancers and performers from Mexico, Rwanda and Namibia, I would like to make a contribution in which women present their bodies as their own monument. During the “URBAN BODIES PROJECT” and “DECOLONYCITIES” projects, we had the opportunity to present these ephemeral monuments that are otherwise missing in public spaces..
This is a project that can be continued on an ongoing basis and can be implemented anywhere.
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A project by yolanda gutiérrez & projects
For more infos about the projects click here Freedom cannot be taken for granted, it must be defended - as multiple crises in the present and the resulting freedom protests make clear. But what contribution can the arts make here? They show what is and what could be; they can visualize the utopia of equality and freedom for all people. On this occasion, we at ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS announced the first scholarships for the performing arts in spring 2024 to enable and support projects, concepts, research and investigations dedicated to the major theme of “freedom”. In response to our call, we received over 120 applications, which illustrate the great need for support in the independent performing arts. The expert jury has now selected the recipients of the first seven scholarships from the high-quality applications: We congratulate Yolanda Gutiérrez with Dolph Banza and Chris Schwagga, Miriam Ibrahim, Daniel Dominguez Teruel, Helge Schmidt, the collective Spitzenberg, Schabraque and Reith, the duo TÒ SU and the collective Tremenda Corporea.
Seven grants of 10,000 euros each were awarded. The grants are aimed at professionally producing artists and artistic collectives from all areas of the independent performing arts who live and work in Hamburg or northern Germany (Bremen, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). They are intended to facilitate in-depth exploration, intensive artistic questioning, transdisciplinary or transcultural exchange and new cooperative approaches. The grants can be used for a preparatory and research phase, the continuation or finalization of a project.
The jury's statement:
Statement from Yolanda Gutiérrez My work spans a period of 25 years, and it is a great pleasure for me to be among these outstanding performing artists who have been awarded a performing arts grant by the ZEIT-Bucerius Foundation for the first time. Unfortunately, the MAGANAKENDA project was not funded by the Independent Arts Fund of the Ministry for Culture and Media Hamburg.However, it worked out with the co-financing fund, so we were able to submit an application for project funding to the Performing Arts Fund. My Rwandan colleagues Dolph Banza and Chris Schwagga hope that we will still be able to realise the project in 2026 together with Kampnagel. MAGANAKENDA is a performative project with dance and visual art that deals with the German-Rwandan colonial past, in particular with the human remains that were looted from Rwandan graves by German scientists at the beginning of the 20th century and brought to Berlin. Today, 900 such skulls are stored at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
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