KARADA

2024

Where does the memory go, when the body disappears?
Based on this question, Asuka J. Riedl interviewed her Japanese grandmother about her experience in World War II. There is common ground between what her grandmother witnessed and what people, currently living in war zones or are connected to war, shared during the research interviews.  What they didn’t voice remains within their bodies.
The solo performance KARADA unfolds a repeating track of a war, the massive form of violence. Along the track, there are faces of war that we cannot learn from textbooks: a victim that can be an offender, an abnormality that can become part of daily routine, and a sense of powerlessness that can flip into a resilience. The piece presents the process of how this generation, not living in a war zone, deals with global conflicts. In the hope to find an answer to the question: Where does the memory go, when the body perishes.
Text by So Young H. Kim

Performed at Neue Bühne Friedrichshain, Berlin (2024); Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile, Berlin (2024)

Artistic direction/Dance: Asuka Julia Riedl
Choreography: Asuka Julia Riedl, Tamae Yoneda
Dramaturgy: So Young H. Kim
Music: Shinsuke Sugitani
Production: Valeria Oviedo
Documentation: Valentin Braun
Photos (from left to right, top to bottom): Alejamdra Ramos, Valerie Schwane

Supported by the Berlin Senat Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.