Concept, Performance: Zandile Darko
Outside eye, costume: Jelka Plate
With texts by Bernard Yaw Darko, Jelka Plate
Soundscape: Freya F. Röbbert
Special thanks to Angelina Akosua Darko,
Yaa Julia Darko, Judith Haman,
Claude Jansen, Grethlis Talvik
and all my colleagues at ArtEZ
Supervision: Fenia Kotsopoulou
External mentor: Nishant Shah
Video: Daz Disley
TIME TURTLE premiered 17 June 2022 at Theatrium Home of Performance Practices in Arnhem, Netherlands
Becoming Turtle: Posthuman Strategies of Practice is an artistic research engaging with different temporalities both human and non-human bodies hold. Questioning current ways of knowledge production, singular narratives and categories, it is a search for strategies which encompasses a multitude of layered, nuanced and complex temporalities, stories and voices. Engaging in questions around epistemic violence, mislabelling and misplacing of bodies, this research offers empowering strategies of practice to rearrange temporal orientations and frameworks within a movement-based practice-led research. Unlearning and undoing on a physical level are at the centre of the employed strategies of practice which seek to make a different knowledge production possible. Through the exploration of embodying turtles and their stories it proposes a critical rewriting of animal-human relation from a posthuman perspective, formulating the ground for a decolonial approach to artistic processes and academic discourses.
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