Une Leçon de Ténèbres / Lecture - performance

In Une Leçon de Ténèbres, Betty Tchomanga creates a searing picture from a number of elements, the links between which are a joy to extract. She blends dance extracts, travel accounts, the spoken word, and archive footage to make visible the path that leads to the production of a powerful and committed decolonial work. Drawing part of her inspiration from Malcolm Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology, Tchomanga invites audiences to travel between the reflections of the Caribbean Doctor of Political Science and her own research into voodoo cults. Encouraging circulation, bringing together references, juxtaposing images, worlds, and beliefs from dominant and dominated cultures – this is the artist’s aim, and she tackles with panache the possibility of a “world ship”, where encounters, coexistence, and the design of a common future would be possible.