SAVVY Contemporary’s yearlong TRANSITIONS programme takes colonial heritage and decolonization as facts and practices of transition. The third of its four chapters is the research, exhibition and performance project SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS. With a focus on artistic practices that engage with movement and its many meanings, the project contemplates dance as a methodology and offers choreography as a metaphor for thinking through the reciprocal relationship between societies and their body/bodies. The exhibition sharpens its focus on continuities of German and European colonialism and how these manifest today within the West, as concerns around “diversity” and multiculturalism, assimilation and integration. The project understands dance as a methodology and thinking process that enables us to identify and read through choreographies that fixate our societies in the steps and gestures of colonial, patriarchal, classist and casteist logic. 

The exhibition takes place in the framework of the 15-months-long programme TRANSITIONS, funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. The opening of the exhibition takes place as part of Berlin Art Week on September 13, 2024, and will be on view until November 1, 2024.

https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/projects/2024/society/

Image: Heba Y. Amin, As Birds Flying, 2016, HD video