HELLERAUmoves: For all
with #yodo - you only die once
A participatory and artistic workshop on dying, death, mourning and care work
As part of a research residency at the Heizhaus in Wedding, artists Virginnia Krämer, Luana Madikera and Michaela Maxi Schulz have dedicated six weeks to the topics of dying, death, grief and care work (taken from the German: STTS) and would now like to share their research.
The workshop consists of various movement exercises, performative interventions and artistic knowledge transfer. Together we will address the following questions: What process does a dying person go through – biologically and emotionally? How can relatives and loved ones accompany this process? How can I represent this process through my own inner creative power? What is death? What do I want to take with me into death? What do I want to leave behind? We would like to provide participants with a new, contemporary form of artistic knowledge transfer on the topics of dying, death, mourning and care work.
The workshop is a low-threshold offer to deal with one’s own mortality and the associated emotional world. The aim of #yodo is to take away participants’ fears and remove the taboos surrounding STTS.
Duration: ca. 4 h with a shared meal
Language: German
The workshop is held by: Luana Madikera, Virginnia Krämer und Michaela Maxi Schulz
Michi Maxi Schulz (she/her) is an performance artist and project manager in the performing arts scene in Berlin. Her projects connect the themes of intersectional feminism, anti-ableism, and critical whiteness. Her work consists of artistic, performative and political formats. Since 2016, Michaela has been deeply engaged with the topics of dying, death, grief and care (DDGC) and in 2017 she initiated the project “#yodo – you only die once.”
Luana Naquin a.k.a Luana Madikera (she/her) is a multidisciplinary dancer who uses poetry, words, images, music and performance in her practice. Luana specializes in modern and urban African dances as well as traditional Afro-Caribbean dances. She uses various improvisation techniques and dance techniques (contemporary, pole dance…). Luana is currently researching the African heritage of the Afro-Caribbean population.
Virginnia Ogechi Krämer is a performer, facilitator, interdisciplinary artist and parent. Their interests range from embodied social justice to afrofuturism to cultural identity-focused artistic research and ritual. In spring 2023 Virginnia was artist in residence at Emerging Change/Tanzfabrik Berlin which birthed their solo work ‘hair pulling‘ (WT). As part of FemBlack Performance Collective they premiered with their first production ‘another space/memory‘ at Berliner Ringtheater in fall 2023.
