Three Days and three nights
Cuban-German artist Viviana Medina Medina is staging a performance specially commissioned for the exhibition ›Evoking Reality‹, which - with reference to the Jonah Myth (5th-3rd. Century BC) – evokes contemporary realities of migration.
The real attempt at the flight of the young Cuban woman, Sandra dos Santos, into the USA created the initial impulse of this performative work, which contrasts the global movements of goods and capital with the forced static of man. While contemporary art reflects the importance of the human need for freedom and migration, by figures and themes such as immigrants, exile, tourists, and urban hikers (Nicolas Bourriaud), the global reality is shaped by regulation and restriction. While often the attention is led toward the escape, Medina focuses on two other moments: the farewell and the arrival. This 30-minute performance invites visitors to immerse themselves in this field of tension and reflect on the constitution of the black, female body in media, politics, and society. After the performance, there is time for a conversation with the artist and the curator Nadine Isabelle Henrich.
Viviana Medina Medina is a theatre director and performance artist, whose work addresses postcolonial theory and the experience of p.o.c. communities in former East Germany as well as feminist topics. She studied literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and theatre at the Ernst Busch Academy, Berlin. She initiated and realized various art and theatre projects, most recently she invited seven groups of artists to stage 15-minute performances under the title "School of Moral" in the former women's prison in Berlin-Lichterfelde.
Date: 02 June 2019
Location: Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Performance: Viviana Medina Medina
Production & Curating: Nadine Isabelle Henrich