Scriptorium:
Whisper from the Skin
flesh & ink collective @ ICA
For École du soir in Shanghai, Christian Nyampeta co-convenes a “scriptorium” working group with local collaborators, the “flesh and ink” collective, to translate a text by Senegalese philosopher Souleyman Bachir Diagne, “Penser de langue à langue” (Thinking from Language to Language), into Chinese. The scriptorium is a collective structure for the experiencing, writing and interpretation of texts, as well as films and music, related to modern and contemporary African thought and life practices. Promoting a discourse of openness, solutions are sought collectively for translation. More recently, observing how words may fail us, Nyampeta and his collaborators have sought new and other methods through lyricism and embodiment.
Bringing together practitioners familiar with navigating social ruptures, they respond to the lingering violence of a colonial present through other sensual attentional modes and seek to foster new forms for "how to live together" through movement, performance, storytelling, and other creative expressions.
In Games We Hide
Act 4 of TRANSITION III
lea, dengdeng, dudu, ziyu, zoey @ keepitquiet
That day, I briefly became an earring for nipple tips, a conduit for herbs, a host for rodeos, a strangler and the strangled... We were like the foot of an octopus, pulled by the impermanent harmony (the common carcass), stretching out its tentacles and retracting them. Transition is the little death and rebirth within us, but its final form is not important, or rather, the finality doesn’t really exist, nor does the beginning.
我们在“马上没”画了一个“〇”
siqi, ziyu @ 马上没
一定要说的话，我俩可能像是在路上摇摇晃晃拎着麻袋收集故事的人。时间久了，麻袋成为器官，一个故事进入身体的管道。它们挤挤挨挨地在体内创造了一些吱呀的回音，以影像或是诗的形式。展厅是回音的陈列。