Karaoke Readings
Workshop with Paloma Ayala // 18.10.2022 //15:00h // Café am Volkspark
Workshop (Sprache: Englisch); Anmeldung bis 16. Oktober via Mail an fempower(at)burg-halle.de
Workshop with Paloma Ayala
Guided by the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, self-described as „chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer, and cultural theorist“, visual artist Paloma Ayala in collaboration with musician Luna León, reframes Anzaldúa's poetry in a format that invites to sing along, read together, listen and participate. This ‚queerified‘, ‚mexified‘ version of Anzaldúa´s texts, recognizes the importance of re-living her voice. It acknowledges her presence in the contemporary problematics of the Mexican/US border, seen from the perspective of Mexican women, feminists, whose roots and family still live in those spaces.
Karaoke Readings
is part of a larger artistic project that explores ways to narrate the space of the delta of the Río Bravo/Río Grande, the Mexican/US border river, and to develop a relationship in solidarity with rurality, water, bodies, and biota from the perspective of a Mexican mujer de frontera. In her project, Paloma questions: How could Anzaldúa´s, and other poetic, female, and cultural agencies lead to create platforms of knowledge creation in favor of the ecologies of the river delta? How could a practice of decolonization of the dominating narrative of violence of the border, create new accesses to the Río Bravo/Río Grande river, both physically and in the collective or personal imaginaries?