Performance
Live reading with sound, still, and moving image projection
The performance Museum of the Blind combines live reading, sound, and … Read More
The performance Museum of the Blind combines live reading, sound, and projected still and moving images without collapsing these elements into a conventional frame. In the performance, Kiwanga casts herself as a conservationist from the future who plays with the voice of authority. Embodying a museum specialist or an academic lecturer, she inhabits a position of power while simultaneously undermining it. The authority of stance, as well as the power of sight, plays a key role in this piece. The artist delivers her lecture while sitting at a desk, where the rigidity of her posture and the constrained movements she makes are deliberate choices that signify academic codes of conduct. The element of play that Kiwanga employs examines how academia perpetuates power dynamics by shaping narratives and performing them. Through this, she challenges the roles of speakers and listeners in contemporary knowledge systems.
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