Land of Tropes

LAND OF TROPES (Working title) is a multi-perspective performance that uses the means of satire, trash and consistent deconstruction/reconstruction to question the persitence of colonial narratives in all of us. In LAND OF TROPES the audience finds themselves in a visual world in which the Eiffel Tower, a European landmark, stands next to an acacia tree typical of safari. An SUV – or is it an elephant? – slumbers in the corner. The three-person team of authors, consisting of the Kenyan author Ursula Gisemba, the German-Serbian author Denijen Pauljević and the German author Theresa Seraphin, write a multilingual text that combines Swahili, Kisii, English, Serbo-Croatian and German. LAND OF TROPES is aimed at audiences in Kenya and Germany and casts a critical, satirical look at the symbolic order of our postcolonial present.