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Links im Bild steht Koleka Putuma auf einer weißen Treppe. Sie trägt einen engen weißen Ganzkörperanzug und eine weiße Taucherbrille. Sie spricht in ein Megafon. Auf die Treppe und auf ihren Körper wird Schrift projiziert. Rechts im Bild sind 3 Projektionen zu sehen: Untereinander 3 Detailaufnahmen der rechten Gesichtshälfte einer Schwarzen Person.
(c) Nurith Wagner-Strauss

Koleka Putuma

(Cape Town)

Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come in

Mousonturm Saal

“Writing as it was, as it is, is how we exhume the bodies and give them names.” Images and sentences by Black, queer women artists pour out of speakers and projectors into the theater space as if from a hot-rodded search engine. In this multimedia stage adaptation of the poetry collectionHullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come in’ by theater maker, poet and spoken-word artist Koleka Putuma, she turns herself into a projection surface and plays with names, memories and legacies of Black women who have been rendered invisible in the arts and in society. In a densely woven dialogue between past and present, Putuma also addresses her own experience as a Black artist in white institutions and questions the lines of sight between spectators and performers: When does visibility become appropriation? When is one absorbed instead of perceived? 

Duration: approx. 60 Min.
Language: English
German premiere