[October 25, 2025. 1:00pm EST (7:00 pm CEST) streamed live from Munich, Germany]
“Return to the Story That Holds You” situates performance as a site of ancestral remembrance and embodied research. Drawing on South Asian heritage and Indigenous epistemologies, the work reactivates practices of communal gathering in which ritual, storytelling, and care functioned as modes of survival and connection. These ancestral practices—singing, braiding, washing, sharing—are not staged as spectacle but reframed as performative strategies through which memory is materialized and transmitted.
Elemental materials such as water and metal operate as symbolic agents of continuity and transformation: water as cyclical return and cleansing, metal as bearing the marks of forging and reshaping. Within this framework, gestures of intimacy and care resonate with Victor Turner’s notion of communitas and Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, where relation itself generates meaning.
The work positions performance as ceremony, opening a threshold where wounds surface, memory circulates, and fragments of the past are re-membered into forms of belonging, intimacy, and renewal.
Performance location:
Canela Art Studio (7:00pm CEST)
https://www.canelaartstudio.com/
Innere Wiener Straße 28, 81667 München
About the artist:
Natasha Jozi (b. 1988, Pakistan) is a Munich-based visual theorist, performance artist, curator, and writer. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the performative self, collective consciousness, and the intersections of science and the metaphysical dimensions of the body. Jozi’s work has been presented internationally, including the Karachi Biennale, Venice International Festival of Video Art, ArtCo Gallery Berlin. She has participated in performance festivals across Europe, Asia, and North America. As a curator, she has developed exhibitions such as Beyond the Spectacle (Germany, 2023) and We’ve Been Waiting for You (Pakistan, 2019). A Fulbright Scholar, she holds an MFA in Performance Art from Montclair State University, USA, and a BFA from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan.
