MIMIMI Space

by Ricardo de Paula

Premieres:

BRAZILIAN FEIJOADA: 5th of December 2020 at HAU4, Berlin

FELIZ ANIVERSÁRIO: 6th of December 2020 at HAU4, Berlin

PRESENT BODY: 7th of December 2020 at HAU4, Berlin

ORI Cleanse: 27th of February 2021 at HAU4, Berlin

Choreography: Ricardo de Paula

MIMIMI Space is an experimental, interdisciplinary format that creates a space for artistic engagement with racism, a laboratory for self-reflection and healing.

The main source of inspiration for the approach of the project is quilombismo, a concept of solidarity. In his essay “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Alternative” from 1980, Abdias do Nascimento sketches the ideal image of an alternative free and democratic community of solidarity, in which Blacks restore their freedom and human dignity. Taking recourse to the historical experience of quilombos, he argues that everywhere there are other examples of lived solidarity, quilombismo. For MIMIMI Space, artists, activists and researchers jointly develop artistic formats in this spirit, in which knowledge from the different fields flows in and mutually enriches each other.

Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin

Co-production HAU- Hebbel am Ufer

Collaboration: SAVVY Contemporary & Grupo Oito

©TitoCasal

ORI Cleanse ©Zé de Paiva & Kathleen Kunath