eau de colonisation

Concept· Text· Choreography

FLOATING UNIVERSITY· GERMANY 2025

with Thulane Lloyd Mgidi

This site-specific performance reclaims the fairy tale of the Little Mermaid through a monologue colliding migration politics, and capitalist exploitation. Performed by a “rebranded” mermaid who has survived her own myth, the piece unfolds as symbolic relics: mermaid kisses, Eau de Colonisation and a life jacket that arrived too late.

Set in or near water, the performance transforms the site into a liquid archive of colonial memory, environmental grief, lost migration routes and the violence of commodification.

Blending stand-up, ritual, spoken word, and movement, the work exposes how female, mythic, and migrant bodies are packaged, desired and erased.

The work is created for liminal water spaces like lakes, canals, reservoirs, and urban ecological sites.