[a] – Transboundary Language
SOUND AND VIDEO INSTALLATION
with LIVE PERFORMANCES
by Lutz Gallmeister
[a] PARTICIPANTS
Premiere:
3rd December 2021 at KRONENBODEN – Berlin
5th March 2022 at MEMORIAL DA RESISTÊNCIA - São Paulo
The project [a] takes Human Rights Day as an occasion for their artistic, multi-perspective reconsideration. When the UDHR - Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, the world was even more male-ruled and dominated by the global north than it is today.
[a] poses important questions about the goals of the Declaration of Human Rights, the targets of those goals, and whose human rights are being excluded. In a dialogue that transcends borders in every sense, the international team takes this declaration as a starting point to search for what unites us, for what we have in common, and for a universality of human rights that includes everyone.
The title [a] stands for the utopia inherent in this project. The sound [a] occurs in almost all languages, so it stands here for a connecting link of communication. And just as [a] has its own sound depending on the linguistic context, human rights also take on different shapes depending on the context and require localized concretization.
Artists from different countries – from the global south as well as from the global north – create a cross-border dialogue with the artistic means of sound, video, and dance. The sound and video installation uses the UDHR as its text and language material. The 30 articles of the Declaration were recorded in 30 different languages and served as source material for short compositions by various sound artists. In addition, small teams of dancers and video artists developed cinematic commentaries on the individual articles of the UDHR.
Funded by
the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance
and by the Goethe-Institut São Paulo.
Video ©Dina Veryutina
Graphic Design ©Fernanda Aloi
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Artistic direction: Lutz Gallmeister - German - Germany (Berlin)
Assistant director: Fernanda Aloi - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)Choreography (live performance): Ricardo De Paula - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Performers (live):
Evgenia Chetvertkova - Russian - Russia (Berlin)
Felix Dompreh - Ga - Ghana (Berlin)
Kalil Joigny - Kréol Réyoné - France (Berlin)
Riko Sugama - Japanese - Japan (Berlin)Set and costume design: Andreina Vieira dos Santos - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Video direction:
Kathleen Kunath - German - Germany (Berlin)
Zé de Paiva - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)Sound / lighting design: Tim Thielemans - Flemish - Belgium (Leuven)
Sound design:
Dr. Aeiuton (Ailton José dos Santos) - Portuguese - Brazil (Lisbon)
Lutz Gallmeister - German - Germany (Berlin)
Makoto Inoue - Japanese - Japan (Berlin)
Tim Thielemans - Flemish - Belgium (Leuven)
Viviane Barbosa - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)Video artists:
Adonis Chirú Pérez - Spanish - Panamá (Panama City)
Dina Veryutina - Russian - Russia (St. Petersburg)
Kathleen Kunath - German - Germany (Berlin)
Rocio Gauna - Spanish - Argentina (Berlin)
Ronaldo Dimer - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Risseth Yangüez - Spanish - Panamá (Panama City)
Tim Thielemans - Flemish - Belgium (Leuven)
Zé de Paiva - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)Performers - Video:
Ana Corte - Spanish - Argentina (Brussels)
Arina Nagimova - Russian - Russia (St. Petersburg)
Carolina Figueiredo - Portuguese - Brazil (Panama City)
Cintia Rangel - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Dilery Alejandra Sanchez Ortiz - Spanish - Mexico (Berlin)
Eszter Parragi - Hungarian - Hungary (Berlin)
Evgenia Chetvertkova - Russian - Russia (Berlin)
Farida Kristina Siallagan - Indonesian - Indonesia (Berlin)
Felix Dompreh - Ga - Ghana (Berlin)
Guilherme Morais - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Johnny Valentte - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Kalil Joigny - Kréol Réyoné - France (Berlin)
Naomy - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Natascha Zacheo - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Nyek Freitas - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Potira Marinho - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Reinaldo Soares - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Riko Sugama - Japanese - Japan (Berlin)
Ronni Maciel - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)Speakers:
Ana Barbosa de Oliveira Santana - Esperanto - Brazil (São Paulo)
Anonymous - Vietnamese - Vietnam (Berlin)
Ashila-Olabisi Osunlana - Yoruba - Nigeria, Berlin (in memoriam)
Barbora Solilova - Czech - Czech Republic (Madrid)
Dilery Alejandra Sanchez Ortiz - Spanish - Mexico (Berlin)
Dina Elsayed - Arabic - Egypt (Berlin)
Elsa Filippidou - Greek - Greece (Berlin)
Emiliya Duissengaliyeva - Kazakh - Kazakhstan (Berlin)
Eszter Parragi - Hungarian - Hungary (Berlin)
Evgenia Chetvertkova - Russian - Russia (Berlin)
Farida Kristina Siallagan - Indonesian - Indonesia (Berlin)
Felix Dompreh - Ga - Ghana (Berlin)
Firuze Gürbüz - Turkish - Turkey (Istanbul)
Imogen Jenkins - English - Canada (Berlin)
Kalil Joigny - Kréol Réyoné - France (Berlin)
Katrine Merlach - Danish - Denmark (Copenhagen)
Khuslen Lkhagva - Mongolian - Germany (Berlin)
Komal Khanna - Hindi - India (Berlin)
Konstantin Abedinov - Bulgarian - Bulgaria (Berlin)
Llanquiray Painemal - Mapuzugun - Chile (Berlin)
Lutz Gallmeister - German - Germany (Berlin)
Mahsa Asgari - Persian - Iran (Berlin)
Makoto Inoue - Japanese - Japan (Berlin)
Matija Sirk - Slovenian - Slovenia, (Berlin)
Mia Wilk - Polish - Germany (Berlin)
Muxiang Zhang - Chinese - China (Berlin)
Renata Britvec - Serbo-Croatian - Germany (Berlin)
Riko Sugama - Japanese - Japan (Berlin)
Steffi Chiosa - Catalan - Spain (Berlin)
Tim Thielemans - Flemish - Belgium (Leuven)
Viviane Barbosa - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Yufan Cong - Chinese - China (Beijing)Production: MIFRUSH Production
Production Videos - Brazil: Giovanna Rodrigues - Portuguese - Brazil (São Paulo)
Graphic Design: Fernanda Aloi - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Press release: Katja von der Ropp - German - Germany (Berlin)
Translation:
André Kushnir - English - USA (Berlin)
Carolina Santa Rosa - Portuguese - Brazil (Berlin)
Lucía Alvarez - Spanish/Portuguese - Argentina (Berlin)
