Costume Designer, Hamburger Sprachwerk, Hamburg 2022.

We celebrate the self-confusion of identities. AFROCONFUSIONIST is an open examination of the term Afro - its roots and its diverse overlays with contradictory attributions in today's world. Afro: a condition, a feeling, an origin, a style of music, a political statement, a term that raises questions. Together with a team of four dancers and two musicians, the Nigerian choreographer Israel Akpan Sunday invites you to a poetic jam session that brings dance and music together and, with the mixture of political and cultural-historical references, styles and feelings, creates the largest possible one trying to create confusion. The Confusionist is an equilibrium of indecisiveness in which one can also be the other. It is the never-ending confrontation in gentle aggression, divisive love and vague clarity with no prospect of salvation - the perfect state to finally meet again with fragile confidence in glorious demarcation. As an interdisciplinary artist, Israel Akpan Sunday's pieces explore the sociological, political and economic problems of today's society and question the underlying systems. His performance style is characterized by a fusion of everyday movements and behaviors with contemporary dance and the constant integration of live music. His works are political and demanding, as well as poetic and sensual at the same time. Driven by a drive to explore and develop Nigeria's multicultural resources, Israel Akpan Sunday's plays always engage deeply with his native country, Nigeria. He currently lives and works as a choreographer and musician in Hamburg.

Costume Designer, exploring Herrero costume, Hamburg 2022.

INTERNATIONALES SOMMERFESTIVAL Kampnagel, Hamburg 2022

Performers from Windhoek occupy the public space for a moment to expose their artistic interpretation in the context of decolonization in dance interventions. Hamburg's history with its trade and port is determined by its colonial past. The German Empire was colonial power in Namibia from 1884 to 1915 and brutally put down two popular uprisings of the Herero and Nama. Hamburg formed a logistical hub for military supplies during the genocide of the Namibian population. Using video mappings and interventions, eight artists from former colonies critically examine Hamburgs huge Bismarck statue and the way Germany's colonial history is dealt with.

Otto von Bismarck is one of the key figures in the colonization of Africa. And the huge Bismarck statue in the middle of Hamburg will be restored from 2020 to 2022 at a cost of around nine million euros. Thus it is currently at the center of the debate about how we shall deal with German colonial history as a society.

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste from funds of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as in the frame of Kultursommer Hamburg.