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.
Fri. 21 Oct., 13:00-17:00: The message of water
What memories does water contain? What memories does water evoke in our bodies? What messages do you want to convey through water?
From the possibilities offered by water in its constant movement and transformation, Mangacu will collectively design an object based on the participants' experiences, from their relationship with transatlantic water. In this way, water will be approached as a boundary, as a wall, as a door, as a possibility. Together with the participants, this object will be carried through the city and displayed on the water.
Would you like to share your experiences and contribute to a collective artwork together with Mangacu Collective? Then 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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