Soliloquio (I woke up and hit my head against the wall)

In Soliloquio (I woke up and hit my head against the wall), Tiziano Cruz blends the sound of the caja with the story of his life and the voices of local Latin American communities. Based on 58 letters that he wrote from Buenos Aires to his mother in the province of Jujuy in 2020, he criticises the Argentinian state’s ongoing political, social and ecological mechanisms of oppression that threaten Indigenous communities. Combining memories and suppressed feelings, personal and collective issues, the artist examines in his monologue the feeling of being a foreigner in his own country and asks with touching intensity: What place does my Indigenous body have in a white system that keeps my perspectives invisible? What does it mean to make art with that body and to use it as capital?  

The performance starts at Schlossplatz Braunschweig.

Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work fundamentally brings together visual and theatrical language, performance and artistic intervention in public space. Tiziano has been a grantee of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro ARG. He was a winner of the Bienal de Arte Joven 2019 and winner of the ANTI award, Finland, 2023. He is the founder of the Cultural Management Platform ULMUS, dedicated to the mediation between different cultural organizations in Argentina and neighbouring countries. He has worked as Content Producer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. His works have toured Chile, Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and Finland.