repose without rest without end
2022

repose without rest without end is a video installation 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. In this work, water is the central motif of this rupture, suggesting that the performer’s body is both submerged and subsumed. A live solo performance intersects with the pre-recorded lamentation to activate a space of shadow, reflection and resonance. 

created by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

Sex Ecologies
 Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
curated by Stefanie Hessler, Katja Aglert, Carl Martin Faurby, Katrine Elise Pedersen, Kaja Waagen, Prerna Bishnoi
exhibition booklet is available here
commissioned by Kunsthall Trondheim and The Seed Box

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council River to River Festival
U.S. premiere
co-commissioned by LMCC and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center with support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
presented in partnership with Fosun, with the support of the Alliance for Downtown New York
presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

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
repose without rest without end
Adaku's revolt
adaku, part 1: the road opens
poor people's tv room