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Past Fellows 2023-1
Born in Mexico City and living in Hamburg, Yolanda is a choreographer, video artist, curator and producer whose projects have appeared in a number of international festivals. She has worked with dancers, actors, wrestlers, musicians, DJs, composers, laypeople, children, costume designers and set designers throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, the USA and Africa. Since 2017, she has choreographed the URBAN BODIES PROJECT and DECOLONYCITIES, consisting of decolonising audio walks with dance interventions.
Yolanda joined global dis:connect as an artist fellow.
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Yolanda Gutiérrez
Born in Mexico City and living in Hamburg, Yolanda is a choreographer, video artist, curator and producer whose projects have appeared in a number of international festivals. She has worked with dancers, actors, wrestlers, musicians, DJs, composers, laypeople, children, costume designers and set designers throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, the USA and Africa. Since 2017, she has choreographed the URBAN BODIES PROJECT and DECOLONYCITIES, consisting of decolonising audio walks with dance interventions.
Yolanda joined global dis:connect as an artist fellow.
Urban Bodies Project Munich
Continuing her investigations into the connections between colonial pasts, architecture and the body, her work at global dis:connect, comprises three modules: a research phase, a period of reflection and a concluding project in Munich. Gutiérrez is looking forward to having the time to reflect and write about her five-year journey of dance interventions in urban spaces.
11 February 2025
In this exhibition with international participation, the tim sheds light on a poignant piece of German history. It is about Jewish women, men and children who fled from Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe to Shanghai from 1938 onwards to escape persecution by the National Socialists and secured their livelihood there, not least through textile work.
The exhibition was created as a cooperation with the renowned Käte Hamburger Research Centre »global dis:connect« at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. It displays original objects made by Jewish refugees during their time in Shanghai,
including artwork created by a refugee girl.
At the center of the exhibition is a historical sewing machine that ensured the survival of one of the families. Originally a gift from a grandmother to her grand daughter, the sewing machine has journeyed from Frickhofen in Germany to Shanghai to San Francisco to Cleveland … and now to Augsburg.
From the Planetary to the Global, and other lost histories of the 20th century.