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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

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

Year

Work

Medium

Key topics

20
24

A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
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

20
22

Between an ocean, a desert and a cloud
– a collaboration with artist Thomias Radin
and videographer David Lombana

>> currently in post-production
performance based photography,
video, sculpture

Caribbean collaboration: Guadeloupe and Barranquilla, bodily thinking, Caribbean thinking/sensing/being, dance, borderlands, coloniality, monuments

20
19
Ongoing

Movements.Manifesting.Monuments

Long-term interdisciplinary visual
and performance project + online platform

www.movementsmanifestingmonuments.com
(coming soon!)

performance, staged photography,
video, sound, online platform

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

20
09 Ongoing

Body of work:
Daughters of the Muntu: On ancestral bodily and sonic knowledges of afro-diasporic women in the Colombian-Caribbean.

(2022) We travel in Circles
/ Viajamos en Rondas

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

documentary photography

family photo album, non-linear his/her-story-storytelling, archives, archives of affection

(2021) Daughters of the Muntu:
A Pluriverse

portraits, documentary
photography

afro-diasporic epistemologies, afro-caribbean literature, womxn, Manuel Zapata Olivella, embodied landscapes

(2009) Graciela Salgado y
Las Alegres Ambulancias de San
Basilio de Palenque

documentary photography

ancestral sonic and bodily knowledges, family tradition, bullerengue, Colombian-Caribbean

20
21

sieben utopische dinge
– Anthrazit
A collaboration with author
Sarah Claire Wray

photography, poetry book

literature, city, Berlin, experiences of the urban, publication

20
21

Manufacture of
distorted images

photography, video,
performance relic

who writes her/his/another story?, challenging colonial archives, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives

20
21

Espejos Mutantes
/ Mutant Mirrors

>> currently in post-production.
Staged photography, performance,
sculpture

land, who writes her/his/another story?, maps, cartography, colonial legacy, disrupting narratives

20
20

Bocas de Ceniza
/ Ash Mouths

photography, object

archives in the making, mnemonic artifacts, politic of forgetting, Abya Yala, archives of affection

20
20

De las Raíces
/ From the Roots

photo-performance

bodily thinking, generational healing, self-portraits

20
20

Uncomfortable Mindscapes

still-life photography

archives in the making, land, environment, coloniality

20
20

Toque de Queda
/ Under Lockdown

portrait, staged photography

extraordinary in the ordinary, covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia

20
20

Echando pa’lante
/ Moving Forward

portrait series

covid pandemic, cuarantine, Colombia, modernity/coloniality in the urban

20
19

Concrete Discontinuities -
Narratives of Dwelling and
Becoming in the Urban

still-life, documentary
photography, photographic
dialog

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban

20
19

Supporting Surfaces

still-life, documentary
photography

modernity/coloniality in the urban, materials as storytellers, readings of the urban

20
18

Primero Estaba el Mar
/ In the Beginning was the Sea

still-life, documentary
photography

land, caribbean, coloniality, disrupting narratives, new imageries, confronting colonial legacies

20
17

Show me your Europe

portrait, still-life photography

land, politics of the imagination, imagineries and sense of a space

20
16

Tierra Común – Fosa Común

sculpture-based photography

land, necropolitics, Colombia, archives in the making, politics of forgetting

20
15 –
20
16

Aus Hand und Stein
/ From Hands and Stones

sculpture-based and staged photography,
collage

who writes her/his/another story?, history-storytelling, magic realism, post-war, re-imaginning archives, re-imaging history, agency to narrate

20
14

hierzulande

staged photography, book dummy

magic realism, storytelling,

20
10
Ongoing

Self-portraits
/ Self-fictions

photography

generational healing, bodily thinking, archives in the making

The Wretched

The Wretched is an inter-textual performative ensemble that deals with the sonic interpretation of the Fanonian text, the Wretched Of The Earth. The Wretchd are Tumi Mogorosi (percussion), Gabi Motuba (vocal), and Andrei Van Wyk (soundscape)*

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The Wretched is an inter-textual performative ensemble that deals with the sonic interpretation of the Fanonian text,
the Wretched Of The Earth. The Wretchd are Tumi Mogorosi (percussion), Gabi Motuba (vocal), and Andrei Van Wyk (soundscape)*