‘The stool of a chief, a statue used for worship, an ancestor’s image, a pipe with tobacco still in it, a comb, a vessel to contain food’
YOU HIDE ME by Nii Kwate Owoo (1970)
A personal and global tracing of lineages of substance (ab)use. Elements such as soil, whisky, and molasses - echoing extractivism - are juxtaposed with some of their ritualistic usages. Consumption of culture, race, gender, spirituality, religion, and food is questioned in this offering. With vulnerability and complicity, n:u (melissandre varin) interrogates healing as destruction and destruction as healing.
n:u (melissandre varin) is an atmosphere-maker with a practice rooted in Congolese, Guadeloupean, and Beninese heritages. Building upon (more than) human, cross-border collaborations, they unearth ancestral ceremonies to be with change. They play with unexpected pairings between materials, bodies, and concepts, disrupting colonial binaries and dominant narratives.
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Content Notes:
Themes of substance (ab)use, pillaging, and colonialism.
Audiences will be invited to consume alcohol, sugar cane, and will have contact with soil.
Allergen Warnings:
Whisky & Mollasses. Physical contact with soil.
Ticket Info:
General Admission: £7
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