Plantation #1 Nativeness
a de-colonial theatrical-performance by experi_theater
In this de-colonial performance work experi_theater deals with PLANTATION, both in relation to people and plants. This performance work focuses on issues that strongly influence political theory and contemporary politics: the legacy of white settler colonialism and its ongoing narrative implications within debates on global migration, modern enslavement, regional claims, and affiliations. The performance shows how the planting and de-planting of people and plants are elements of the same overarching colonial system. Today's ecological problems are a key legacy of colonialism, which has always operated its plantation economy as a cooperative project affecting plants, animals, and people simultaneously. In this context, the performance also exposes Switzerland's involvement in colonial planting and clearing practices that have led and continue to lead to the uprooting of indigenous plants and people. It is also exposing the recent experiences of institutionalized structural racism and white supremacy violence, the deep plantation approach of neo-colonialism that we had to go through and have to go through living and working in Zurich. The performance follows the rudimentary traces of non-white artistic intuitive processes of experi_performers, in whose vocal, physical, and musical echo spaces a decolonial perspective on NATIVENESS can become visible.
We invite the public to one of our performances to come with intersectional sensation and experience, listen, learn, unlearn and witness our de-colonial demonstrative performances.
Duration 90 minutes and in English and German.
Dates and Time
Tue 12, Wed 13, Thu 14, Fri 15, September 2023
at 20h
@ ZENTRALWAESCHEREI.SPACE, Neue Hard 12, 8005 Zurich
Entrance: Fr 15.-
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