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Encyclopedia of Music and Culture by Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa
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I am a researcher and performance artist. Having a background of a past experience of civil war (Angola) and being a dislocated and displaced individual, I use my body as a way of artistic intervention to investigate my broken diaspora identity in a fictional manner. After I arrived in London in the 1990s, I felt a lack of identity/sense of belonging; this was to do with my experience of growing up in a country under a turbulent experience. The traumatic past I had made a tremendous impact in my new environment (London). It revealed my experiences of post-colonialism and post-civil war (Adebayo, 2007: 20). However, this manifests in the way I perform/construct performances/engage with an audience, where I normalise feelings of memory, trauma, fear and insecurity (Bushra, 2004: 12-3).
One of my objectives in my presentation for this conference is to show the connection I made with my country of origin through my performance practice; whereby I link with the richness of the cultural tradition and religion as a way of intervention of performance and visual arts (Cordell, 2003: 240). In other words, my performances creatively use my body as a vehicle of conveyance to symbolically and fictionally compose movement, gesture, dance and ritual (Harrison, 2002: 2). Furthermore, in my practice I scrutinize “memory and trauma" to re-create (re-act) my diasporic identity and negotiate cultural space within the British environment (Tulloch, 2004: 11).
The fundamental base that underlines my presentation is to demonstrate how I deliberately make some of my performance of painted body visible by performing in public spaces. Indeed, I do this as a methodological strategy to make my practice noticeable and as a process of openly sharing my traumatic past. In other words, I want to show how I make urban public spaces and site-specific spaces a manifesto of performing and narrating life/history/identity (Doy, 2000: 209).
In this paper, for the purpose of the conference I also want to show that, as a diaspora artist my practice indicates an interdisciplinary dialect, through which religion and spirituality are very strong sources of references (Thompson, 1984: 179-80).
Nonetheless, as part of my presentation I intend to show an illustration of slide images of my practice. The purpose of the slide is for a better perception of my ideas, concepts, principles and articulations I deploy."
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