Exploring performative methods of archiving; the concept of Performative Install – Actions/ urban interventions are invitations to experience the encounter with the unknown, the ritual temporality, the states of body – presence and its transformation. The notion of ritual is practiced as an epistemological live archive to experience memory, archive, history, identity, time, and space in performance. It is an activation and evocation of memory and time. Considering memory and ancestry as an inheritance in the Afro-Diasporic body, they become agents. Generating a shift of power, legacy, agency and narratives.
The idea is to work site-specific using the “Bakongo Cosmogram” as a map that will overlap in space, in the city of Lisbon, locating places of memory on the transatlantic slave trade around the city and making performative urban interventions.
The videos are part of the artist residence at the MANIFEST Project (2023-2024) that seeks to empower artists to approach and to re-imagine the perspectives and the history of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people on the European continent and its existing cultural traces. The selected artists will travel to three cities to create art that promotes a creative look into our past collective memory. Along the Artistic Journey, artists and creators will be required and encouraged to utilize new media technologies and foster personal development.