Nzam — Time and Spirit | Jasmine Tutum

In the organizer's words:

NZAM - TIME AND SPIRIT is an interdisciplinary work by performance artist Jasmine Tutum that deals with the decolonization of the archive. The aim is to revive an African past and use it as the basis for a vision of the future.

Tutum's ancestors are Fang from Gabon and their ritual culture can be found in large numbers in German museums, galleries and ethnological collections. Tutum addresses the German colonial entanglements that can still be felt here in Freiburg.

The artist uses the camera to interactively convey information from archives. She explores how she can translate her ideas of restitution into a captivating exploration of memory and re-creation, loss and restoration.

Tutum combines ritual elements with Afrofuturism to explore the transformative power of time and spirit to tell new stories. Using live electronics and video installations, vocal improvisation and dance, the silence of the archives is broken to invite the audience into a radical and playful space.

//English version

NZAM - TIME AND SPIRIT is an interdisciplinary work by performance artist Jasmine Tutum that deals with the decolonization of the archive. The aim is to revive an African past and use it as the basis for a vision of the future.

Tutum's ancestors are Fang from Gabon and their ritual culture can be found in large numbers in German museums, galleries and ethnological collections. Tutum thematizes the German colonial entanglements that can still be felt here in Freiburg.

The artist uses the camera to interactively convey information from archives. She explores how she can transform her ideas of restitution into a captivating exploration of memory and re-creation, loss and restoration.

Tutum fuses ritual elements with Afrofuturism to explore the transformative power of time and spirit and to tell new stories. Using live electronics and video installations, voice improvisation and dance, the silence of the archives is broken to invite the audience into a radical and playful space.

With

Jasmine Tutum, Sarah Holzer
Dramaturgy: Mbene Mwabene
Choreography: Melanie Jame Wolf
Video and sound design: Roland Sproll & Team

Play duration: approx. 55 min

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg and the Office for Migration and Integration
A cooperation with the E-WERK Freiburg and the Ethnological Collection Freiburg.

Price information:

Admission 17 / 13€ (reduced)