“The paradox of memory”
1991 is an immersive and intimate performance experience of a soldier’s memory of the Nigerian Biafran war.
In this piece I use performance, sound, projected images and the power of contemporary social media to reveal the devastating visual documentation of traumatic cultural events. To examine how contemporary media shape the transmission of a traumatic chain of memories in Nigeria.
How do we deal with the paradoxes of memory in unpleasant history? We have to remember, but it’s too unpleasant that we want to forget right? I choreographed this performance to be symbolic and real, personal and political simultaneously. And to indicate both the necessity and the dangers of how we document conflict.
