on the way, undone
2021

on the way, undone is the first in a series of lamentations that mark the rupture between a precolonial West African body and the charged space of identity within a contemporary Black body. At the heart of this epic song is a mother’s wail with the gravitational force of generations. It signals a mother’s grief for a lost daughter. In this iteration, a chorus of muses and furies echo her grief and sustain her.  


conceived and composed by Okwui Okpokwasili
in collaboration with mayfield brooks, Anaïs Marvel, and Samita Sinha
with headpieces designed by Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili
and a sonic landscape by Peter Born

poor people's tv room poor people's tv room (solo) installation poor people's tv room solo Adaku's revolt pent-up: a revenge dance repose without rest without end swallow the moon on the way, undone at the anterior edge procession Bronx gothic: the oval day pulls down the sky Bronx gothic sitting on a man's head adaku, part 1: the road opens