Bumba / Public Intervention

Through interconnected performances in public space, Bumba and Kasparas Brazovskis examine visibility, belonging and access. Engaging directly with passers-by, the performances question who gets to occupy public space, who decides the rules that shape it, and how power becomes visible through everyday encounters. Within FOR THE CULTURE, the city itself becomes a site for reflecting on representation, participation and collective life.

Working across performance, installation, text and public intervention, Bumba uses language, the body and public space as artistic tools to question how meaning is constructed, shifted and imposed within systems of power, identity and representation. Taking reality itself as her material, she repositions familiar symbols, systems and visual languages, making visible what often goes unnoticed. Balancing confrontation with poetry, humour with urgency, her work invites audiences to question what is usually taken for granted.

Within FOR THE CULTURE, Bumba presents 10L WITTE PRIVILEGE, a public performance in which she circulates fifty numbered paint cans bearing the words 10L WITTE PRIVILEGE. Dressed as a construction worker, she frames privilege not as an abstract concept but as a structure that is built, maintained and passed on. What appears to be a product launch becomes a public intervention where an everyday object exposes systems of power, inviting audiences to reflect on their own position within them.

This performance is part of SUMMER OF MINO – FOR THE CULTURE, a monthlong, citywide programme of exhibitions, performances and interventions across Antwerp.