Decolonial Mermaid
           2024 

video performance, 06:43:25

Created within #CleanWaters Artistic Residency
coordinated by MaiMultVerde and Matka
Sulina, Danube Delta, Romania (2024)

Text: Nadja Kracunovic
Camera: Marco Verhoogt

The character of the Decolonial Mermaid, born in response to extreme injustice, brutality, and human-inflicted violence, embodies a resistant narrative through water. She performs a decolonizing poem on the coast of Sulina, addressing two seas. The mermaid drowns in the Black Sea and reappears in the Mediterranean, swimming through the Bosphorus, while collecting artifacts from the wars witnessed by these waters. Although the sea is her natural habitat, she fears entering it. By repeatedly stating, "My white body entering the Black Sea," the mermaid confronts personal, racial, cultural, and ecological oppression.

Is there anything else we can discuss at this very moment anyway?