“This new session of Partitions (Performances) associates two forms of discourse marked by one and the same interest in the counter-culture and popular culture as sources of references capable of underwriting a scientific argument and turning fiction into nothing less than authentic facts. Kapwani Kiwanga finds the sources of a possible history of Africa’s astronomical heritage in B movies and the imagery of the Afro-futurist movement. In the performance series “Patrick”, Patricia and Marie-France Martin proceed by way of linguistic distancing and digression, mixing genres and blurring categories…”