Elfenbein - Annäherung an ein fleischloses Erbe

In the organizer's words:

What visible and invisible legacies do we carry around with us? There is the difficult legacy of a one-meter elephant tusk, which until now has been leaning against my father's kitchen cupboard. The grandfather shot the elephant on a safari in 1971 and proudly brought this trophy of white, patriarchal arrogance home with him. His story has been passed down, but who was the elephant? Who were the hunting companions?

The heiress now asks herself: what to do with this heirloom? This gives rise to an artistic search for responsibility in a society whose colonial legacy still resides in museums, cellars and bodies. Where does this tooth belong? What does the colonial legacy do to those who inherit it? How do you show it?

The performers - with ancestors in the global South and North - search for a way to deal with inherited coloniality. Between mourning rituals, familial search for traces and speculative science fiction, they want to make fleshless heritage tangible and fabricate stories where white, patriarchal archives leave gaps. They approach decolonization in a way that can be experienced emotionally and sensually. Individually and collectively, they seek an attitude, a view of the tooth and its time.