“Visitor” is a Film/ performance installation work that digs into the political and historical context of Uganda, critically examining the teachings and writings of the nation’s history. It revisits the material and spatial-temporal realities of the country, aiming to expose the invisible colonial systems that continue to govern the nation. How can a generation seek its origins when history was neither written by its people nor intended for them? Like a falcon warped by lies, this work seeks to trace the roots and question the hosts of capitalism.
This project portrays the transformation, reinvention, and ascension of Ugandan and colonial identities, reflecting the complex interactions between colonial powers and those subjected to them. I offer my body here and now to transcend a simplistic vision of art, using it instead as a mirror to provoke change and refashion the nation.
In this work, I reinterpret the Museum of Uganda and its teachings, questioning the architecture of the social, economic, and political systems. I investigate the societal judgments and cultural teachings, inviting the audience to look beyond the obvious and experience a multi-modal museum of colonial identity. The work mirrors the 21st-century senses of being and spirit, using performance as an attitude towards process and life, the body as an archive and material of production, and space as a mural for viewing and interpreting these writings.
“Visitor” explores how a living body, resituated in social space, becomes a sculpture that confronts audiences and compels them to contemplate their own vulnerabilities.
The work is available in 3 chapters
- Dance Film
- Performance installation
- Performance Lectures
