MAMIMUMU

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Created and performed by Leonie Bell (with you or a bunch of tourists)

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This is a fake scientific experiment about the relationship between hoarders and airplanes. This is the nostalgizing and repurposing of memories to avoid misanthropy. This is immersive fan-fiction about the trips our parents went on. Don’t worry, snacks will be provided. Avanti popolo!

We are on a questionable Easyjet trip to Rome: fact skirts around fiction as Leonie hands out snacks, looks for her seat repeatedly, and proclaims stories about her parents that may or may not have been embellished - motorcycles, emotional hoarding, and Italian socialist lullabies included. This is a live-media attempt to locate ourselves through history we weren’t there for. This is a communal pilgrimage to document that we are here  together no matter how far apart we are. This is a trans-atlantic processional-protest advocating memories as lineages. Maybe we’ll call Mama and Papa in Berlin at 1 AM to ask about 1984. Maybe we’ll do a dance together on a Roman bus instead. Man weiß es nicht till it happens. 

* This piece was developed with the support of the Founder’s Artist-in-Residency Program at the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation

** Presented at Fall Movement 2018 (CPR) & Exponential Festival 2020 (The Brick)

Video Design by Andrew Murdock 

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Photography: Walter Wlodarczyk

Performance: Exponential Festival 2020 (The Brick)