From the tree
| From the tree | |
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| Time |
Start time 11:00h - 15:00h several times per hour, duration approx. 50 minutes. Booking of time slots via ticketing. |
| Genre | Sound parcours / Performance installation |
| Participants | |
| Description | Suitable for everyone who has suitable clothing for indoors and outdoors, is good on foot, likes to be surprised and can wait until the right moment comes. Meeting point is in front of the main entrance of the Ethnographic Museum at the Old Botanic Garden nearby Gessnerallee Zurich; see here for details. There may be short waiting times at the entrance. Buying tickets in advance is recommended. |
| Program | Greenman Muleh Mbillo & Dani Ploeger – Concept, design & performance «From the Tree»(2023) |
| Description | «Kuausia-ing» is a Kenyan practice of prophecy. The initiation ofthe ritual, which is deeply rooted in tradition, is performed by healers of the Akamba peopleon the «nzevu,» a ritual instrument forbidden to be used in public. «From the Tree» is based on long-standing research into technology and mythology by the artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo & Dani Ploeger. The performance imagines «Kuausia-ing» in the digital age and guides the audience through the preparations for the ritual. What happens during the performance, how ritual instruments sound in a digitalized day, and what Greenman Muleh Mbillo has brought from Akambaland to Zurich will only be revealed to those participating… Co-production: Ensemble Tzara, cooperation: Gessnerallee, Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich |
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