Mbuchi

MBUCHI House#2 : 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴

Saturday, 26th April, 16:30 – 20:00

reservations in the following form: https://forms.gle/tRcNSfY4jcq8GCzY7 (max 30 spots)

Mbuchi is the first word of Bigu. It is world(s), it is anything you want to express, it is mutual understanding. It is also a gezin collective.

𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 is the complicity of an intimate encounter by sharing a hallway, a kitchen and a garden. It is gathering in the fortunate moments we can.

For the #2 session, we’re absolutely thrilled to present 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, with 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗰í𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗼. 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a performative reading that brings together stories shaped by the desire to find a place to nest. Through a children’s story and shadow play, Amauta and David will share their search for housing, something that has been followed throughout their family histories. Now in the Netherlands, the search for a house has become especially intense, revealing itself as a global, intimate, and generational point of reflection on what it means to have a home.

Amauta García and David Camargo are Mexican artists based in the Netherlands. They work with action-research and collaborative methods at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, moving image, and storytelling. Their projects focus on untold narratives of urban extractivism and environmental affectivity, in territories where the land is overexploited to sustain cities, from real estate speculation to underwater natural gas extraction.

𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 happens in Scheveningen, very close to the beach. You can have a day in the dunes and later, around 16:30, ring the bell to join us for some storytelling about nests.The performance will start at 17:00 followed by a meal prepared by David and David. 

𝙋𝙡𝙯 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩

The drawing for this flyer was made by Bigu.

More info on the live stream soon.

MBUCHI House #1 : a tear, drowning a river, drowning an ocean

Saturday, 26th July, 16:30 – 20:00

Since we moved here, it has been a dream of ours to share our home for performative gatherings and to share a meal in intimacy. And now, finally, we decided to start, just the way life flows.

𝘔𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪 is the way we call our family as a collective: David, Eva and Bigu, our turtle love, who also invented the word. It was the first one that Bigu used frequently to name the world, to claim it his own. It didn’t have a specific meaning. It could be anything and yet, we understood it well. That’s why this word is so dear to us, it implies a mutual understanding beyond any official language. Here, 𝘔𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪, signifies the complicity of an intimate encounter by sharing a hallway, a garden and a table. Just like we do with our (chosen) families, in the fortunate moments we can.

We have the honor to start 𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 #𝟭 with 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 by 𝗙𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝘇𝘃𝗶. He will be thinking and working through tears, the notions of tearing up and tearing down. Fazal will be turning to shia rituals of mourning and remembering, in an attempt to turn and return to the body – and to the earth body. Mourning here would be seen as a form of flooding and witnessing, and would simultaneously also serve as a means of cleansing, repair and renewal.

Fazal’s lecture performance will be centered and structured around the traditions of marsiya and soz khwani, which are poetic and performative traditions that have developed within South Asia, archiving stories of resistance from the battle of Karbala. He will activate and think through the element of water as it journeys across time and place, from its molecular form to more oceanic and emotional state/s.

You could have a day on the beach and later around 16:30, ring the bell to join us, to listen, to shed and collect tears. The lecture performance will start at 17:00 followed by a meal prepared by Fazal and David. 💧

𝙋𝙡𝙯 𝘿𝙈 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 .

The drawing for this flyer was also made in collab with Biguzaa