Home in Huyong-Huyong

In the organizer's words:

Grace Nono is one of the most renowned musicians in the Philippines. As an ethnomusicologist with roots in the Agusan del Sur river valley in northern Mindanao, she is strongly influenced by various indigenous singing practices. Grace Nono fights for the protection of these oral traditions that are ignored by the western-dominated Filipino music scene. Concerts, collaborations and study visits have taken Grace Nono all over the world. In her new performance, the musician now tells of her return to Agusan del Sur and her discovery that the land of her ancestors lies on peat soil, an ecosystem that is often overlooked, misunderstood and destroyed.

"Home in Huyong-Huyong" is more than an autobiographical narrative. The performance is at once a song, a field report and a dream, as well as an invitation to relearn to listen to the earth, which tells of memories of colonial history, of responsibility towards family and community and of connections to the invisible, of ghosts that it brings to the surface. In the local language of Agusan del Sur, "Hyong-Hyong" describes a soil that is so damp that it gives way underfoot. It also stands for the trembling wisdom of wetness, for ecosystems that resist enclosure and thus rebel against human ignorance and the consequences of climate change, which particularly affect the Philippines as an archipelago.

• Duration: 60 min.
• Language: English
• Mousonturm co-production

Price information:

Solidary price system (freely selectable): 8 € / 12 € / 21 € / 36 €