Sharp as a Story. Objects Talk Back

The ephemeral strokes of a Story Knife were traditionally drawn by young girls into soil or snow to repeat old tales that would then blow off in the wind or melt away in the sun. Rivera Garza connects this empowering ancient Indigenous practice to the violentometro, a contemporary tool designed in Mexico to measure instances of intimate partner violence. The story of violence against women constantly disappears even as it is continuously told, re-told. Might a Story Knife play a role in reversing such erasure?


Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose works explore the lightest and darkest passages of human experience with courage, grace and love. In her new creation for Humboldt Forum she boldly extends the scope of literature. Through performance, gesture, art and text, Rivera Garza, accompanied by artist Saul Hernandez, opens a profound space, an invitation, for collective memory and story.


Participants

Cristina Rivera Garza, Saul Hernandez, Priya Basil

- 12 EUR, reduced 6 EUR
- English
- Mechanical Arena in the Foyer
- Part of: Objects talk back