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In the organizer's words:

Inspired by a story knife made of walrus ivory from the Arctic, Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza has created a multifaceted new work that poses the questions: What is being remembered? And how? For whom?

The fleeting strokes of a story-knife were traditionally drawn by young girls in the earth or in the snow to repeat old stories that then blew away in the wind or melted in the sun. Rivera Garza combines this powerful, empowering indigenous practice with the violentometro, a modern scale developed in Mexico to measure cases of domestic and intimate partner violence. The story of violence against women is constantly disappearing, even as it continues to be retold. Could a story meter play a role in reversing this erasure?

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose work explores the lightest and darkest parts of human experience with courage, grace and love. In her new work for the Humboldt Forum, she boldly pushes the boundaries of literature. Through performance, gesture, art and text, Rivera Garza, accompanied by artist Saul Hernandez, opens up a profound space, an invitation for collective memory and history.

Participants

Cristina Rivera Garza, Saul Hernandez, Priya Basil

Further information: 12 EUR, reduced 6 EUR. Please book your ticket online. Language: English. Mechanical arena in the foyer. Part of: Objects contradict