performance / video, with Theresah Akomfah, Sharon Sedem Kamassah, Sel Kofiga, Austin Nortey, Julius Yaw Quansah, Awuhdu Suleman and Martin Toloku, Kumasi, Ghana 2020
BATS SONG
In the darkness of the wisdom I transform
And the earth rubs on my skin
and the only voice o
is the barking love
Until the morning
when the bats fly to Accra
Please come sit next to me
We don’t need no superior
No, we don’t need no superior
Please come sit next to me
We don’t want no servant
No, we don’t want no servant
The spam of blood and justice
runs daily through my LTE Destruction goes before pride and fall before spirituality
Aggression from the 2000
runs daily through my LTE Imported frustration, exoticized and scam-friendly
Let’s spam the grey areas between the local and the global With translation errors
I have grown fat, fat, fat
Big ass, big breast, big elbows
I have grown fat, fat, fat
big eyebrows, big toes, big knees
We look into each other’s hearts
Let me hear your voice
In the wind, from ages
Do you wish to sing?
The unknown beckons
Calling us to fly
Discovering more than we know
We look into each other’s hearts
Let me hear your voice
In the wind, from ages
In the darkness of the wisdom, I transform. And the earth rubs on my skin. And the only voice is the barking love, until the morning when the bats fly to Accra. The spam of blood and justice runs daily through my LTD. Destruction goes before pride and fall before spirituality. Aggression from the 2000 runs daily through my LTD. Imported frustration, exoticized and scam-friendly. I have grown fat. Big ass, big breast, big elbows. Electricity running from you to me. Efficiency is corruption as well as fantasy. But when the rain comes we are closed off again. So please come sit next to me, No we don‘t want no superior. No we don‘t want no servant.
In 2020 during a residency at perfocraZe International Artist Residency in Kumasi, Ghana together with local artists we developed “When the Bats fly”as a performative intervention at the Kejetia Market. The bats move in a pack, have an ultrasonic awareness of their surroundings and are a common, as well despised animal in Ghana. Through poetry and songs the bats can express thoughts they would rather not.
COSTUMES Cando Fashion
VIDEOGRAPHY growdavinci
PHOTOGRAPHY Onsoh Edward
AUDIO Richard Sarpong-Fordjour
PRODUCTION Mawuenya Amudzi
SUPERVISION Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]
DEVELOPED AT perfocraZe International Artist Residency- [pIAR]
SUPPORTED BY Federal Chancellery of Austria and Lower Austrian State Government