In developing this workshop I approached the encounter with the beginners mind, curious, receptive and open to receive new impulses and novel points of exchange; abandoning the demands for a fully realized work and the rigidity of hierarchical approaches to knowledge production. The role of facilitation bends to one of hospitality, inviting a collective and mutual process, a ritual of care and listening. Building from a principled relationship to time which recognizes that within the present both pasts and possible futures cohabitate, I extend this awareness to the body with its inner and outer travelings, as well as to the land with all that it equally carries and holds.
‘Hide and seek’ acknowledges the multiple and divergent historical and material relations we live within, as well as the new frameworks and social relations we co-create and how they comprise only a part of a greater consciousness of which includes living and non-living entities. It is from there that our most sacred practice, the transmission of knowledge, is born. As a consequence of our alienation under capitalist hegemony, we are burdened with a great sadness for all of that knowledge lost and obscured. Through the work of embodied movement and spell making we can cultivate our senses again, feeling against the survival instinct which conditions us to numbness.
Statement: The project is born from the memories I carry, together with the knowledge passed down to me from my Grandmother Owo.
MAGIC EXISTS AND WE ARE ITS TOOLS.
Participation is open to anyone who is willing to play and take up space with their body and voice (all levels are welcome).
Wir laden Menschen ein, die bereit sind, mitzuspielen und mit ihrem Körper und ihrer Stimme Raum einzunehmen (alle Niveaus sind willkommen).
Der Workshop erstreckt sich über drei Tage. Jede Einheit dauert etwa zwei Stunden.
Wir bitten um einen Beitrag von 130 Euro pro Teilnehmer für das gesamte Wochenende oder 200 Euro pro Paar.
Bitte eine eigene Yogamatte mitbringen.
Der Workshop findet auf englisch statt.
Kéwè K Bonono (1992) is a franco-cameroonian artist (Paris/Berlin), autodidact choreographer, writer and dancer in the field of performative arts. His work translates in format such as: Dance, workshop to host in self curated events. His work questions the meaning of identity, interconnectivity, Ecological thinking, ancestral knowledge within the Diaspora, collective memory as well as the supernatural or terrestrial. K.Bonono improvisational practice tape into the core of movements by including within it every element surrounding the Dance.
His work as been presented in context of contemporary art, dance, acting, poetry in institutions such as Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Callie’s gallery (Berlin), Wedding Gallery (Berlin), Museum of fine art
platform 10 (Lausanne), Tanz Im August (HAU Berlin), PAF festival (Village Berlin), Sophiensaele Theater (Berlin), Ufer Studio Tanz Nacht (Berlin) among others.
