KALEIDER It’s a secret

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Kaleider’s It’s A Secret is a one-to-one (…to-one-to-one-to-one…) verbal storytelling project that only participants can experience.

The project premiers with 8 original stories being told to 41 people, who will then tell the story to 41 more, and so on. Only after participants have passed it on they will be able to know the historical journey of their story.

The stories only exist in each one of the participants and will become different in every passage, through shifting contexts, memory, language, imagination and time.
We are always tempted to know how the story has changed, what the “new” story is. But is this ever really possible? Do we ever hear the same thing as others? Is a common understanding what holds our social fabric together?

It’s A Secret plays with fiction and truth, secrecy and sharing, gifting and holding back, memory and invention. It invites us to consider the responsibility we have to tell each other stories. It invites us to think of the archive as a trace, not a monument. In a world where fake news proliferates at a much higher rate than truth, what do we choose to tell others?

In collaboration with Storytel, the stories will be the ones told in the podcast Tell Me Mama, nine portraits of Afro-descendant women, told by Afro-descendant women by Igiaba Scego and Esther Elisha.

Bio

Kaleider is producers Katie Keeler, Jocelyn Mills and Irene Urrutia, manager Peter Vanderford and artist Seth Honnor. We are also all the freelancers who make up our production teams, and the partnerships that help our work meet audiences. We combine installation, live performance and digital in our artworks, which are conceived and directed by Seth, almost always in collaboration.

We tour to cities, festivals, venues and public spaces all over the world. In the last 5 years we have performed 274 gigs in 12 countries on 4 continents to more than 120,000 people.

Kaleider Studios is in Exeter, UK and is where we make our work and run projects.

We share our space with other creative organisations and individuals, many of whom we collaborate with and who collaborate with each other.

Kaleider is an IN SITU artist 2020 – 2024 (UN) COMMON SPACES. IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space.

Credits

BASE Milano, IN SITU

  • Duration Sessioni ogni 15'
  • Doors opening at 15' before the event starts
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