28.10.2021, 7 PM, Opening Night | 30.-31.10., Shows: 4.30 PM + 6 PM –Zandile Darko – Dedicated to The Turtle That Never Was* | Performance | M.Bassy | in German language
Zandile Darko – or should we rather say a turtle? – mediates through different times and spaces, sharing her relations to humans, animals, ancestors and archives. The artist’s imagination is as much a source for stories as encounters with family members and one very specific turtle. It all started with colonial objects at the Zoological Museum in Zandile’s hometown Hamburg. Well, it started when she engaged with a specific turtle at the Zoological museum: the turtle that never was…
Concept, performance, text Zandile Darko Outside eye, concept, costume Jelka Plate Dramaturgy, concept Claude Jansen With texts by Bernard Darko, Grethlis Talvik Soundscape Freya F. Röbbert Special thanks to Yasmeen Ghrawi
Funded by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg – A cooperation with „Re-Enactment of Things” and COME IN TENT.
*after an article by Jef Akst
