A PLEA TO ANGER
is a performance and musical expression about a intensiv emotion, the Anger. The importance of Anger as a political vehicle. We have performed this art piece at brut Vienna in October 2020.
Anger as a theoretical and aesthetic tool is used to deconstruct projected identities. Identities are complex and fluid and manifest flexible ways of belonging. Spoken word, sound poetry and electro - acoustic music are used for expression of being infuriated, resistance and cultural healing, all at the same time. Music as a means of resistance and healing. We as artists of colour use spoken word, sound poetry and Anatolian and Kurdish songs to express our outrage about discrimination and racism.
Our music has a forensic, political and metaphorical approach. By digging into various music archives we collect lost pieces, that are part of historiography of the middle eastern region.
We are searching for sounds to create visions of the future, this process constitute our artistical material and our own sound. By seeking the past in archives, an imagination of tomorrow the now is getting shaped into a hybrid music. Acquiring ascriptions and deconstructing them in the musical process, as a collective improvisation process. This a method of relating to the ancestors, to a collecti- ve memory, which tells also an a-linear historical narrative.
By using hybrid and layered forms of expressing oneself like rap music, angry storytelling, gestures, mimics, breath, various voices and hard-talk we bunch as Women of Color experiences intersectional marginalization in a racialized society. Complex power dynamics and multiple discrimination mecha- nisms construct homogeneous collective identities.
By relating to various references like Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, Tupoke Ogetta, Jilet Ayse, Paul Ekman, Virginia Woolf, Iris von Roten and so on, we approach from a queer-feminist and anti-racist perspective, which also deals with the issue of Anger on the emotional level, that says a lot about the current society. It is everywhere and still a taboo emotion.
,,Women responding to racism means women responding to anger; Anger of exclusion, of unquestioned privilege, of racial distortions, of silence, ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, misnaming, betrayal, and co-optation.“ (Audre Lorde, 1981)
