SPIRIT CAPITAL - PERFORMANCE

SPIRIT CAPITAL - The Seat of Memory holds at its center an object from the Congolese Luba tradition: a wooden headrest, showing two identical female figures at its base. Used as spirit and history containers it forms the anchor for the performance which is staged on the outline of the ‘Tropical Bungalow’, a residential structure installed by the colonizer in the Congo and organized according to the zoning principle: the strict racial separation and circulation of space.

SPIRIT CAPITAL transforms the stage into a ritualized place and invites viewers on a spatial and mental journey in which historically oppressed bodies move through words, sounds, and appearance towards a hybrid transculture.