 From 2017 I realized my first decolonizing-silent-walk-performative city tour URBAN BODIES PROJECT. This was invited to the international festival THEATER DER WELT. Afterwards, this project was invited to Amsterdam, to the international dance festival JULIDANS, and to Stuttgart, to the festival DIE IRRITIERTE STADT. Later, the project DECOLONYCITIES followed in Hamburg in 2019 and 2021. Both will be supervised by a diverse and international team under the new platform founded by myself called SHAPE THE FUTURE."
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 Photo: Chris Schwagga
BE YOUR OWN MONUMENTHamburg, Germany Which monuments are missing from public spaces – and how do the existing ones shape our thinking and our memories? In recent years, I have had the opportunity to leave artistic traces in urban spaces that open up a decolonising perspective. Together with dancers and performers from Mexico, Rwanda and Namibia, ephemeral monuments were created as part of the ‘URBAN BODIES PROJECT’ and ‘DECOLONYCITIES’ projects, in which women turn their own bodies into monuments. For brief moments, new forms of monumentality became visible in public space – beyond traditional cultures of power and memory. This gives rise to an alternative narrative in which women and BiPoC make their own mark and bring their stories to light themselves. This project is conceived as an ongoing practice that can be continually adapted to different locations and contexts.
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A project by yolanda gutiérrez & projects
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