Reclaim!

RECLAIM!
THE POWER OF COMMUNITIES

07-10.02.2022

A space to explore the radical potential of collective practice between artists and activists. From approaches that involve intimacy, collective writing, collective singing, cooking and eating together, dancing as a political movement, honoring the dead. These artistic practices invite us to surpass individuality, and build together a creative, flexible, invasive network of alianceship. Through practices of re-existance this is an invitation to create ways of living together that undermine the colonial, capitalist, racist and sexist orders.

Four days event for and with @fridaysforfuturevienna, @klimacamp_wien, @kollektivantikolonialerinterventioneninwien, @claimthespace, @kollektivlauter, @rosaantifawien, @niunamenos.austria, @schwarzefrauencommunity, @zara.zivilcourage, @afrorainbowaustria, @queerbasevienna @freiwilligeredolmetcherinnen, @greenheroesaustria, @extinctionrebellionaustria, @systemchange.not.climatechange @agentur_aesthetische_agitation, @lobau_bleibt, @rettet_die _lobau

Activated by the artists, collectives and activists, Carlos Atabey Maria Romero (CO/UK/DE), Rocio Marano (DE/AR/ES), Angela Muñoz (ES/DE), Faris Cuchi Gezahegn (ET/AT), Veza Maria Fernandez (ES/AT), MAI LING (/AT), Lina Venegas (CO/PE/AT)

Organized by nadaLokal, curated by Amanda Piña CL/MX/AT and Susana Ojeda COL/AT. RECLAIM features mostly vienesse female and non-binary artist of post-national foregrounds.

PROGRAM:

Monday 07.02.2022

18:30 – 19:30 Film Screening La Nave, by Carlos Atabey Maria Romero

La Nave translates the meaning and spirit of Carnival de Barranquilla during a year in which gatherings were forbidden. Through clandestinely filmed performances with members of many different communities—indigenous, trans, queer, rural, Afro-Colombian and radical outsiders among them—Maria Romero recreates northern Colombia’s largest cultural event as an essayistic performance film, demonstrating how Carnival is a lifeblood to its many diverse participants.

19:30 – 20:45 MATRIA – Motherland, by Rocio Marano with Ángela Muñoz

Matria imagines a history that is not represented in colonial, hegemonic narratives. In an exploration of Malambo, the resistance dance of the gauchos, known today in Argentina mainly as a solo competition between men, the performance dismantles the disciplinary and patriarchal aspect of the dance and moves towards a dance of rebellion. In the crossover between traditional and contemporary dance, the standard of Western aesthetics is challenged to create space for other dance ontologies.

21:00 – 22:00 Get together with Punsch4uganda

Tuesday 08.02.2022

18:00-19:00 Maloca #2: House Cosmos Body, by Lina Venegaz

From the idea of Maloca as a house body, representation of the cosmos, that gives space to cultural, social, political and spiritual issues of a community, a space where knowledge is shared to grow as individuals and community, this shared ritual practice as part of a performative work in progress, wishes to contribute to the collective mourning of those environmental defenders happened during last year.

19:00-22:00 El club del grito, by Veza Fernandez

A workshop to get ready to scream together out from our guts. To find the force of our voices even in silence. The juicy ones inhabiting our genitals. The secret one living in our bones. The forgotten ones we carry in our backs. Let us convoke all this voices and all this forces that only our most sentient call can. We learn to listen in intensity, to amplify in expression, to support and hold each other.

Wednesday 09.02.2022

18:300-20:30 Mai Ling Kocht by Mai Ling

Mai Ling Koch is a series of oral, auditory and haptic performances tapping into the evolution of Asian food through mobility. Taking place in both physical and virtual realms, Mai Ling experiments with conviviality inviting participants to descend into a deeper exploration of food — its stickiness, its histories and its politics. By tending to our desires for comfort and pleasure, food transforms beyond mere sustenance to a medium that satiates what was lost through migration. Through performative interactions with food, Mai Ling deconstructs oppressive structures and stereotypes — those that have been superimposed and reproduced — as a means for survival and protest.

Thursday 10.02.2022

18:30-20:30 Dress-Rehearsal by Federico Protto

Dress-Rehearsals is a twilight-place between the phenomenon of fashion
and world of sound. Fabrics, clothing, sounds, texts, voices, and the
body become tools for somatic and performative practices to diffuse, and
recollect knowledge. In constellation of a South American background,
sonic and textile artefacts and multiple research materials are
activated in a proto-esoteric gathering.
What are the value-systems at stake? How are materials and their
qualities defined? And what forms of translating originate from these
questions?.

20:30-21:00 Get together with Punsh 4 Uganda

Please let us know how many people from your community are coming and on which days so that we can schedule food and drinks.

FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS

La Nave – Carlos Maria Romero (COL/UK/GER)

Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey Mamasita (Colombia, 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in dance and live art, working in the fields of performing and visual arts, heritage and architectural activism, pedagogy and curating. Maria Romero is the third member of SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together!) with whom they wrote and continue to present a series of queer manifestos responding to contemporary pressing issues of sexual and gender oppression (initially part of Frieze Projects 2017); and a member of Vividero Colectivo, a Colombian group of multidisciplinary artists and architects revealing narratives in which historically marginalised social practices and architectural goods are (re-)claimed as cultural heritage. Carlos Maria Romero is also an associate artist of ice&fire, an organisation addressing positive change in the world through performance and arts practices in relation to human rights. Carlos Maria Romero is based between Colombia, United Kingdom and Germany .

MATRIA / Motherland – Rocio Marano (ARG/ESP/GER) with Angela Muñoz Martinez (ESP/GER)

Choreography, Dance, Music, Poem: Rocio Marano /Dance, Music: Ángela Muñoz/ Costume: Federico Luz/Lighting: Catalina Fernandez/ Assistance/ External eye: Lea Kieffer /Recycled carpet: Lea Kieffer, Platforms: Santiago Dolijan./ Mentors: Amanda Piña (Vienna) residency at nadalokal / Michelle Moura (Berlin)/ Poem Translation: Susanne Grau

With the support of the research grant DIS-TANZEN-SOLO-Stipendium, Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin; nadalokal (https://www.nadalokal.at/) director Amanda Piña, and the STIBET programme DAAD scholarship.

Ángela Muñoz Martínez (Seville, 1986) is a Spanish dancer and performer based in Berlin. After completing her classical dance studies at the conservatory of Seville, she graduated with a B.A. Honors in Contemporary Dance at The Place, London Contemporary Dance School. During her studies of the M.A. Performing Practice and Visual Culture, she researched the act of listening and developing work based on the technique of Deep Listening in relation to movement. Since then, Angela is been involved in interdisciplinary artworks with artists such as Esthel Vogrig in Mexico, Daria Fain in New York, and Inmaculada Jiménez in Spain, works by Jule Flierl and Alexandre Achour, and participated as a guest artist with Damaged Goods /Meg Stuart and Claire Vivianne Sobottke. Angela is a self-taught musician and an active member of the music groups Nunofyrbeeswax, Hypnodrone Ensemble, and Vrouw! And recorded and toured extensively through Europe and the US.

Rocio Marano. Born and raised in Argentina, and based in Berlin since 2015. She trained in dance and martial arts in an independent path while studying at the Escola Superior d’Art i Disseny de les Illes Balears (Graphic Design). Later she continued her studies at at HZT Inter-University Center for Dance in Berlin (Master in Choreography) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (Diploma in Ecofeminism). Rocío is attracted by the movement that is generated in the popular ground of the collective and whose norms extend beyond contemporary dance. Hence her exploration of Krump, Malambo, Contact Impro, Yawning, where oppression on bodies is transmuted into dance and a kinesthetic exchange between the conscious and the unconscious takes place. Her works include MATRIA (2021), THE DISCOURSE OF THE YAWN (2021), OSCITATIO (2020), MONEY-CURE (2020), INSANITY SOLO (2017) exhibited at the Buenos Aires Performance Biennial BP17. She has worked with Tino Sehgal, Christopher Winkler, Juha Marsalo, Barbara Berti, Lea Kieffer, Susanne Grau among others.

Maloca #2: House Cosmos Body – Lina Venegas (CO/PE/AT)

A homage to environmental defenders from the Global South murdered in 2020 / Shared ritual practice.

2020 has been so far the most dangerous year on record for people defending their land and livelihoods, ecosystems vital for biodiversity, and the climate. Over half of 227 lethal attacks, recorded by ONG Global Witness, took place in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines. Unaccountable exploitation driving the climate crisis is also driving violence against land and environmental defenders. From the idea of Maloca as a house body, representation of the cosmos, that gives space to cultural, social, political and spiritual issues of a community, a space where knowledge is shared to grow as individuals and community, this shared ritual practice as part of a performative work in progress, wishes to contribute to the collective mourning of those environmental defenders happened during last year.

*Foto: Cerrejón, Colombia. Largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America.

Lina Venegas. Dancer and choreographer with engineering background and Colombian – Peruvian roots, based in Austria. She holds an MA in Contemporary Dance, Movement Research and Pedagogy from the Bruckner University in Linz, and an MS in Engineering from Los Andes University in Bogota. Her choreographic work focuses on cultural and social contents and it has been presented in diverse contexts in Austria (Odeon Theater Wien, Kosmos Theater Wien, Urania Wien, Argekultur Salzburg, Festspielhaus St Pölten, Schlossmuseum Linz, Landesgalerie Linz, Brunnenpassage Wien, nadalokal Wien), Colombia (Alzate Avendaño Theater, Delia Zapata Theater, Artestudio Bogota), Japan (Saitama Arts Theater), Peru and Ghana. In Colombia she has collaborated on sustainable development projects with the Ministry of Environment, United Nations and NGOs, and coordinated the cultural space Artestudio Bogota. She has danced with Odeon Theater Vienna since 2006, featured in performances by Amanda Piña/nadaproductions, Kandis Williams, Fanni Futterknecht, Renato Zanella, Tanzfabrik-wien, Anna Tenta, ObjêtsFax Co, and has taught dance in different artistic and community based contexts.

El club del grito – Veza Maria Fernandez (ES/AT)

This is a workshop to get ready to scream together out from our guts. To find the force of our voices even in silence. The juicy ones inhabiting our genitals. The secret one living in our bones. The forgotten ones we carry in our backs. Let us convoke all this voices and all this forces that only our most sentient call can. We learn to listen in intensity, to amplify in expression, to support and hold each other.

* Ilustration Sara G Novi

VEZA is a dance, voice and performance artist interested in the political and poetic potential of the eclectic-expressive, navigating different genres, formats, institutional and underground scenes. She is a queer feminist artist. She works with the many voices that form a unity in a sensual togetherness that encourages difference in care. She works with extreme vocal and physical states that challenge what is considered norm, beautiful and harmonious. She studied English and Spanish Philology and used to be a high school teacher. In addition to all of that she is a stand up comedian, a singer, a poet and a party lover. Her Solo piece “Calamocos or my grandmother was a poet who could not write” was awarded with the Best OFF Styria audience prize in 2014. She was awarded with the danceWEB scholarship (ImpulsTanz Vienna) in 2015 and in 2016 with the Stadt Graz Outstanding Artist Award. She is currently enrolled in the DAS Choreography Masters program in Amsterdam where she is developing her practice of the “messy polyphonies”.

or …

VEZA works on the arts that are ephemeral but pretend to engrave in memory through space making or weirdness and alienation or in the beat of the and or etcetera.

Mai Ling Kocht – Mai Ling (XX/AT)

Mai Ling Kocht is a series of oral, auditory and haptic performances tapping into the evolution of Asian food through mobility. Taking place in both physical and virtual realms, Mai Ling experiments with conviviality inviting participants to descend into a deeper exploration of food — its stickiness, its histories and its politics. By tending to our desires for comfort and pleasure, food transforms beyond mere sustenance to a medium that satiates what was lost through migration. Through performative interactions with food, Mai Ling deconstructs oppressive structures and stereotypes — those that have been superimposed and reproduced — as a means for survival and protest.

Founded in 2019 in Vienna, the artist collective and association Mai Ling offers a platform to share and exchange experiences, struggles as well as practices of anti-racism, sexism, homophobia, and any kind of prejudice toward one’s difference — especially against Asian womxn bodies.

The name „Mai Ling“ refers to a fictional figure invented by Gerhard Polt, a famous German comedian, in 1979. She embodies a submissive hybrid and fantasised stereotype of Asian women that has been silenced and invisible in the collective imagination. Triggered by this fictionally constructed character that still lingers around in our contemporary societies, Mai Ling, as an artist collective, re-narrates and portrays „Mai Ling“ with collective voices and multi-layered identities.

Dress-Rehearsal
A radiating broadcast from and for the senses- By Federico Protto

Dress-Rehearsals is a twilight-place between
sonic and textile artefacts that activates multiple research materials
in a proto-esoteric gathering.

The main thread is weaving as an artistic tool for a collective ritual decolonisation of the senses. How are materials and their
qualities defined? What are the value-systems at stake? And what forms of experience originate from these questions?.

Federico Prottos’s artistic practice unfolds along and between
performance, music, costume and fashion, and artistic research. After
having worked as fashion and costume designer showing his collections at
several international fashion weeks and festivals, Federico Protto
turned toward performative practices, sonic experiments, textile
investigations, publication formats, and public workshops.
He was born 1991 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is presently based in
Brussels, Belgium.

[1] http://www.federicoprotto.com/
[2] https://soundcloud.com/federicoluz/sets/formulas
[3] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=254726209528936
[4] https://www.instagram.com/federico_luz/

*Photo: Ina Aydogan. Instagram: ina_aydogan