HECATOMB II – Movements, and rituals for the renewal of the world
Martha Hincapié CharryFriday 8 May 18h, 18:30h
City of Cultura | Gaiás Centre Museum, sala seminario
HECATOMBE II – Movements, and rituals for the renewal of the world is an immersive video installation with live performance in which participants encounter three Indigenous leaders from the First Nations of the so-called Americas: Colombia, the United States and the Amazon.
An encounter that documents and honours ancestral Indigenous knowledge, their dances, rituals and ceremonies, creating a space for reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature.
The work interweaves body, ancestral knowledge and technology, proposing a ritual and ecofeminist experience in which memory, spirituality and ecology intersect. It is an offering, a gesture of renewal in the face of the world’s exhaustion, a call to return to the earth as a place of communion and listening.
NOTE: The audience will be free to move around the space and may remove their shoes in order to come into contact with the earth covering the floor of the performance area.
Martha Hincapié Charry
Martha Hincapié Charry, a Colombian artist of Indigenous origin, is a choreographer, performer and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) curator focused on decolonisation, currently based in Berlin. She studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch and at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In 2019 she received the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography. Her work has been presented at festivals and venues across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
She has been Artistic Director of ‘Plataforma/SurReal Berlin’ since 2011 and was Associate Curator at Radialsystem, Berlin, in 2021/22. In her work, she opens a space for dialogue between continents through an intersectional perspective, addressing climate chaos, (de)colonialism and the relationship between art, the human/more-than-human, and the visible and invisible world.