As part of the project Water Narratives by Mangacu Collective, four workshops are being organised that will form the prelude to a performative intervention in the harbour of Hoorn on 21 October, and an exhibition in the chapel from 21 to 29 October.
Sun. 16 Oct., 13:00-17:00: The voice of feeling
How does a memory live in my body? And how is my body part of a collective body? What words can bring my memories out of oblivion? How are our bodies connected to each other and the water that brought us together? What personal memories have been suppressed by official collective narratives?
In the second workshop we explore forgotten memories in our bodies, we listen to the memories that may have been suppressed by an official narrative. By using our voice and from an approach to the different voices and languages present in the group, we will perform a creative exercise in the chapel of HMK. We will also with all participants look at Hoorn with different eyes and especially listen to what the water has to tell us. The collective sound/mantra/poem resulting from this workshop will also be recited in the harbor of Hoorn, where water is dominant and carried the ships of the VOC that shaped Hoorn
Are you curious about what the water has to tell our bodies and memories? What things we might have forgotten? Sign up for this workshop! Contact info@hotelmariakapel.nl in order to register and participate in one or all the workshops - participation is free of charge.
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Consisting of: Ana Bravo Pérez, Tomas Espinosa, Maria Teresa Guerrero Bucheli, Mariela Meza, Paula Gempeler. With confirmed participants: Julian Wijnstein (Storytelling), Wouter Neuhaus (ZwartxOranje), Merve Kaçmış & Marisella de Cuba (WePromise), Jerrol Lashley (Stichting Netwerk).
This project contributes to the conversations on decoloniality in the form of an art project consisting of a number of workshops and an exhibition at HMK, departing from two distant harbor cities: Tumaco at the Colombian coast and Hoorn in the Netherlands. These cities have been marked by their colonial past that defines their present day.
With these workshops, the Mangacu Collective from Colombia brings together two geographical contexts marked by water: Hoorn and Tumaco, both cities were enslaved people arrived to never return home.The members of the Mangacu collective invite you to participate in four different workshops developed around the question:
What could water tell us if it could speak?
The workshops will allow us to approach the transatlantic past in a sensory way and ask questions about the visible and invisible traces, knowledge and memories carried in the body and still present in these two localities of Hoorn and Tumaco. The Mangacu Collective invited local voices to join the workshops where we will explore deep memories through food, sounds, the stories archived in our bodies. We will approach the power of sound and poetry as a healing element. And although miles and miles of water lay between Hoorn and Tumaco, the similarities and learnings will surface throughout the workshops.
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