Malinches Echo

In the organizer's words:

A multimedia performance by schall&kreck

"What does it mean to carry a heritage that is not your own? My name, my skin, my language."

Growing up in an indigenous village in Mexico, deported to the Gulf Coast as a slave, given away to the Spanish conquistadors, used as a translator and mediator in the conquest of Mexico, mother of a child with Hérnan Cortés - these are the key facts of Malinche's life. But what we remember of her are manifold images, stories and attributions: Malinche as the original mother of Mexico, as a traitor, as an icon or as a transcultural mediator.

The performance collective schall&kreck makes the figure of Malinche speak and dance. In an interweaving of acting, dance, sound, costume and video art, patriarchal and colonial narratives are unmasked and questioned. schall&kreck puts the search for Malinche's story in her own hands and sets her in a process of reflection in a multimedia performance that ends in a maelstrom of (de)colonial historiography.

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