AMAZONEN IN BERLIN
in collaboration with Lina Mazenett, as part of the collective Amazonen in Berlin
Public Artistic Walk, Germany, 2024
“We need stories that are just big enough to gather up the complexities and keep the edges open and greedy for surprising new and old connections.”
Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway
In an artistic walk in Berlin Mitte, we visit three statues of the ancient warrior women Amazone zu Pferde.
The public is invited to revisit the history, representations and mythology of the Amazons, while reflecting on the appropriations of womxn’s bodies and the land from an ecofeminist and decolonial perspective. Through somatic exercises, lecture performances and an audio installation, the team and the invited artists encourage participants to actively and experimentally engage with the statues and the public space.
Contributions by Chiara Faggionato, Zeina Hanna, Mazenett Quiroga, Andrea Volken.
The project is organized by Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett and funded by Kunstraum BARAZANI.berlin and the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Berlin.
