How can the Black Diaspora create and share its own narratives?
Art, both political and poetic. How can the Black Diaspora create and share its own narratives? How can the past be imagined and the future be remembered? In her work, sound and performance artist Fallon Mayanja seeks an artistic practice that resists racialised representational logic. She blends video, poetry, music, and performance to create poetic narratives of Black histories, experiences, culture, and anti-racism. In the endless archives of the Internet, Fallon collects activist and political speeches, songs, film clips, and video snippets and weaves them into new narratives and poetics of Black presence in Europe. In the multiplicity and interstices between artistic and media expressions, spaces of social transformation emerge.
Fallon Mayanja is a writer and performer. Her work as an artist and curator revolves around words and language. She explores new narrative forms and directs hybrid bodies and voices to produce sound, theatrical and choreographic creations. For her ‘the body in the space’, ‘the space without the body’ and ‘body and space’ are all important relationships. Fallon Mayanja is a member of the collective Black(s) to the Future.