She Who Has No Master(s) in collaboration with Moving Poets Berlin presents an exhibition of poetry + visual artworks at Novilla in Berlin, Germany, along with a poetry+movement+sound art performance (Aug 9th) and community workshops (Aug 10th).
Ausstellung bis 24. August | workshops 10. August 13-17 Uhr
Opening hours Saturday/Sunday 15:00-18:00 Uhr, Wednesday 17:00-20:00 Uhr or by personal appointment (e-mail: mobe(at)movingpoets.org / Mobile: +49 177 3154530)
YELLOW ECHOES is a multi-voice hybrid poetry project by She Who Has No Master(s) collective. The exhibition and performance explore embodiments of harmony, dissonance, resonance, light, shadow, and yellow. The project includes recent work 'does voice breathe us or do we [/] breathe voice into being' and other curations of sound, photo/images, installation and text.
YELLOW ECHOES uses a multimodal approach of visual art, poetry, and social engagement to convey the diverse experiences of diasporic Vietnamese womxn and reclaim the power of the color yellow (from its negative racial association for Asians).
Their works often address the troubling representations and narratives of Asian female figures in popular culture. Through their social art practice, She Who Has No Master(s) uncover collective ruins through yellow renewal and provisions of care; honoring marginalized bodies, histories, and voices.
She Who Has No Master(s) is a recipient of the Gold Futures Challenge Grant (Asian American Futures, Gold House).
SWHNM participants:
Angie Chau | Anh-Hoa Nguyen | Barbara Tran | Dao Strom | Hoa Nguyen | MyLoan Dinh | Phuong T. Vuong | Sophia Terazawa
Guest collaborators:
Bích Ngọc Lưu | Carmen Volpe | Hany Tea | Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen
Saturday August 9:
7pm - Vernissage / Opening
9pm – YELLOW ECHOES, multi-voice/multi-lingual (Vietnamese, English, German) music/dance performance.
This premiere performance is a result of a cross-diasporic exchange/collaboration with Moving Poets Berlin and Berlin-based Southeast Asian artists.
Sunday August 10: Community Engagement Day Activities of Creativity and Connection
13 - 15 Uhr | Say My Name: Crafting Bracelets and Name Poems – community workshop Novilla garden
15 - 17 Uhr | Jumping the Color Wheel: A Performance and Writing Workshop with SWHNM, Novilla concert room. Space is limited, registration required! Register HERE!
This workshop, conducted in English, playfully explores connections between movement and creative writing. Open to all artist levels.
How are our bodies a part of communication and miscommunication, translation and mistranslation? Together, we will make new writing and performance pieces that weave together elements of our favorite colors. Perhaps reaching across languages might unearth non-linguistic meanings. Participants will work with themes of memory, diaspora, migration from the SWHNM exhibit.
About: She Who Has No Master(s) is a collective of womxn and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora who engage in collaborative, polyvocal, and hybrid-poetic works to enact a politics of connection across diasporic boundaries. Through a collaborative writing and art process, SWHNM explores multi-voiced collectivity, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.
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