ANTI-MUSE

ANDREA VEZGA ACEVEDO, IRIS OMARI ANSONG, MIRABELLA PAIDAMWOYO* DZIRUNI, MANGORANGES, MZAMO NONDLWANA & FARIS CUCHI GEZAHEGN: ANTI-MUSE

Fri 27. & Sat 28.02., Sun 01.03., 19h, TQW Hall G

Rising from the ocean’s abyss, mythologies, lost memories and messages circulate toward the future. "ANTI-MUSE – to those yet to come" is a collective performance manifesting the nonconformist spirit, force, and figure of an anti-muse within a fictional world. Rooted in movement vocabularies such as Twerk and Whine, the piece unfolds a narrative that references the story of Black Atlantis. With embodied, sonic, textile, and sculptural elements, a lost city inhabited by Drexciyans is evoked. Drexciyans are mythic water-breathing, mutated beings born at the bottom of the sea as descendants of pregnant enslaved people. This is where the anti-muse re-emerges as an ancestral force of resistance, guiding toward diasporic futures and emphasizing the three-dimensionality of time.