On Caribbean Afro-diasporic sonic and bodily knowledges
︎Body of work: Daughters of the Muntu
︎Between an Ocean, a Desert and a Cloud
On monuments and archives in the making
︎Movements.Manifesting.Monuments
︎Bocas de Ceniza/ Ash Mouths
On challenging colonial History-storytelling
︎Manufacture of Distorted Images
︎Espejos Mutantes / Mutant Mirrors
On another-history-storytelling
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones
On experiences of the Urban
︎sieben utopische dinge – Anthrazit
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces
︎Body of work: Daughters of the Muntu
︎Between an Ocean, a Desert and a Cloud
On monuments and archives in the making
︎Movements.Manifesting.Monuments
︎Bocas de Ceniza/ Ash Mouths
On challenging colonial History-storytelling
︎Manufacture of Distorted Images
︎Espejos Mutantes / Mutant Mirrors
On another-history-storytelling
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones
On experiences of the Urban
︎sieben utopische dinge – Anthrazit
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces
On Colonialities
︎Primero Estaba el Mar / In the Beginning was
the Sea
︎Uncomfortable Mindscapes
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces
On Nation-state imaginaries and politics
︎Tierra Común - Fosa Común
︎Show me your Europe
︎Echando Pa’lante
On bodily-thinking and generational healing
︎De las Raíces / From the Roots
︎Self-portraits / Self-fictions
On magic-realistic storytelling in photography
︎hierzulande / In this Land
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones
︎Primero Estaba el Mar / In the Beginning was
the Sea
︎Uncomfortable Mindscapes
︎Concrete Discontinuities
︎Supporting Surfaces
On Nation-state imaginaries and politics
︎Tierra Común - Fosa Común
︎Show me your Europe
︎Echando Pa’lante
On bodily-thinking and generational healing
︎De las Raíces / From the Roots
︎Self-portraits / Self-fictions
On magic-realistic storytelling in photography
︎hierzulande / In this Land
︎Aus Hand und Stein / From Hands and Stones
Work
Medium
Key topics
A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
a collaboration with artist and filmmaker
Mary Jirmanus Saba
a collaboration with artist and filmmaker
Mary Jirmanus Saba
a performance that combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance (soon online)
gendered reproductive labour, the reproductive labour of motherhood, artworld, critique
Between an ocean, a desert and a cloud
– a collaboration with artist Thomias Radin
and videographer David Lombana
video, photography, sculpture
>> currently in post-production.
Movements.Manifesting.Movements
Long-term interdisciplinary visual
and performance project + online platform
and performance project + online platform
www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com
(coming soon!)
who writes her/his/diverse-stories?, herstory-storytelling in public space, corpo-monuments, colonial narratives, anti-colonial responses, intersectional feminism, occupying and transgressing the traditional concept of monuments
Body of work:
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.
sound piece
afro-diasporic epistemologies, caribbean, music, bullerengue, rueda de bullerengue (bullerengue circle) dancing stories, baile cantao (sung dance)
(2021 - Ongoing) Cantaoras
portrait series, interviews
afro-diasporic epistemologies, storytelling, cantaoras (singers), bullerengue, caribbean, sonic and bodily knowledges
(2021 - Ongoing) Home as a photo album
– working title
– working title
documentary photography
family photo album, non-linear his/her-story-storytelling, archives, archives of affection
portraits, documentary
photography
photography
afro-diasporic epistemologies, afro-caribbean literature, womxn, Manuel Zapata Olivella, embodied landscapes
documentary photography
ancestral sonic and bodily knowledges, family tradition, bullerengue, Colombian-Caribbean
photography, poetry book
literature, city, Berlin, experiences of the urban, publication
photography, video,
performance relic
performance relic
who writes her/his/another story?, challenging colonial archives, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives
Espejos Mutantes
/ Mutant Mirrors
/ Mutant Mirrors
>> currently in post-production.
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture
land, who writes her/his/another story?, maps, cartography, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives
photography, object
archives in the making, mnemonic artifacts, politic of forgetting, Abya Yala, archives of affection
photo-performance
bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits
archives in the making, land, environment, coloniality
extraordinary in the ordinary, covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia
portrait series
covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia, modernity/coloniality in the urban
still-life, documentary
photography, photographic
dialog
photography, photographic
dialog
modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban
still-life, documentary
photography
photography
modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban
still-life, documentary
photography
photography
land, caribbean, coloniality, disrupting narratives, new imageries, confronting colonial legacies
portrait, still-life photography
land, politics of the imagination, imagineries and sense of a space
sculpture-based photography
land, necropolitics, Colombia, archives in the making, politics of forgetting
sculpture-based and staged photography,
collage
collage
who writes her/his/another story?, history-storytelling, magic realism, post-war, re-imaginning archives, re-imaging history, agency to narrate
photography
generational healing, bodily thinking, archives in the making