My proposition is the new presentation in the BIENALSUR of a performance celebrating the city and its inhabitants. The performance is a procession through the city by costumed performers and musicians questioning our relation to the city and to each others. The performance will be documented on video and presented in an overall installation with all constituting elements (props, costumes, flags…).
The project refers to several of my performances having had the city as investigating point. I propose to reactivate those performances in the south american context, in a new and local contextualized project: the connection of the human with the nature and the city, the utopia of the city, the modernism, the enthusiasm for the urban, the challenges of living together, … will be questioning.

The 4 performances, I refer, are: WE’RE BUILDING A CITY (A PARADE FOR AMSTERDAM ZUIDOOST), 2013, focussing on Amsterdam suburbs, how a city raise, the interactions between humans architecture and nature and the fascination for the modern city. The procession was recreated in Lagos (Nigeria) during the 2. Lagos Biennale (2019) likewise celebrating the city, its youth and raising questions: e.g., how does a city emerge, from which utopias, from which energy? The departure into a new age is celebrated. Also the performances WE MAKE THE CITY, Bangalore (India, 2015) and A SONG FOR THE EBERTPLATZ, Cologne 2017 (a parade celebrating a symbol of brutalist architecture) are a prolongation of that work.