Yo Bro

For Generations hardly anything has shaped our image of family as much as television. “But who is this ‘we’,” asks Joana Tischkau, “to whom ‘Married with Children’ is addressed? Who recognises themselves in ‘Alf’?” 

Together with her twin brother Aljoscha, a social pedagogue, the choreographer and performer celebrates a very special revue about television and family. In “Yo Bro”, Joana and Aljoscha Tischkau, supported by complete strangers cast as their relatives, artfully work their way through all the representations of family in mass media. Bodies put on costumes to act out the roles that are not commonly ascribed to non-white or queer people. Living images of contradiction and ambiguity. The Kelly Family singing “We are the world”. A dance through the archive of collective memories of television evenings of the 1980s and 1990s, at the end of which the image of the family is reassembled. With the Jacksons. “Wanna Bet?” 

Joana Tischkau, born in Göttingen, is a choreographer and performer. At the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, she researched how popcultural dance practices with Black connotations in social spaces can be interwoven with intersectional, feminist and postcolonial theories to form an artistic practice. She is also co-founder of the Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music.