The Achitecture of Flesh

Body or museum? Do we have our thoughts and beliefs reincarnated?

Thinking through time

When does the past meet the future?

Art and Humanity

We are constantly longing for acceptance. To belong to a tribe that speaks us fluent

Want to know me?

My name is Koloto Siraji, a Ugandan contemporary artist and researcher. My method explores the bagisu philosophies of dance and art. Embracing and initiating the bagisu theories of art through the lens of modern practices. It is my intention to revisit the old wisdom of dance. My creation lab inhabits a space between merging bagisu traditional practices with urban approaches to spark out fragments of a contemporary wave.

I work between the error of post-colonialism and decolonization. Investigating the body as a medium to give new narratives. I’m curious about how I can use the body in space to transfer information and dance the agony in humanity. My art is most grounded in the lives of my communities and my ancestry. I’m most interested in making people feel, think and question; in relation to environment, politics, and humanity. My work offers no easy answers but seeks to provoke questioning in the audience; triggering them to think and seek individual perception and responsibility in the action. I produce my work as performances, dance films and installation art.

What I do?

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Performances

I produce performances that investigate humanity. Work that speaks directly from the world of thoughts to visuals...

Dance Films

I intend to create films that research humanity and speak to the world. Films that bring the human imagination to visual reality...

Installation Art

I play with found objects, recycled materials to create spaces and temporary sculptures that redefine the presence of art......

Welcome to my world of research, tales, beliefs, thoughts and opinions.
All my works are influenced by how I feel and think about situations.

My Creation Embryo?

My artistic identity is creating emotions and intentional body movements, construction of temporary sculptures and installations. My interest is questioning the myths around humanity, interpreting stories of the world and narrating stories of my ancestry.

Art and Humanity!

My work is mostly created to address social issues. From gender politics, climate change, environmental justice, and human rights. People would easily dissolve information that gave them chance to think than one that gives them direct answers. I explore the issues in our world, the realities of life and give them a new narrative. Mirror them to the people and trigger them to think out loud..

My Research and Philosophy?

I found passion in exploring humanity and I apply all my skills and research to pronounce the untold stories. As a contemporary artist, I have the power to express my feelings with every cell of my living body. I narrate stories only with emotions and movement, or re-situating the body in sculptural spaces! I think of the body as a large museum filled with information of varying generations, History and Future instincts. I feel a lot of experiences, feelings, beliefs, and realities that only the body can communicate. Things that the spoken languish don’t always have words to explain or where it is too difficult to talk about them out loud..

Dwelling in a background that is culturally, spiritually and economically damaged. I find my path through
creating incubation processes involving practicing my art on a living body.

I draw my interest to understand the relationship
between the body and space.

Artistic Statement

My art involves Body movement, Film and construction of objects, sculptures, and installations that explore representations and activities of political, social and cultural powers.

My Artisitic Statement

My Creations, Recent work, News, and update

My work is a result of deep artistic research and is intimate to me. I produce my work as Performances, Dance films and Installation art. Take a walk through my previous works.

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When the body speaks,
Silence becomes the loudest voice.

As a contemporary artist with an African heritage and backbone of the bugisu philosophies of art, it is in my DNA to dance, to move and feel the atmosphere of flow, to be vibrant and aggressive. But some stories I choose to tell by creating images and spaces of fantasy to give viewers time to dig in the art work and seek their own interests, imaginations and meanings.

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