MBUCHI#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 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 ❤️🐢