Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (GHA) & John Herman (DE)
Artivism/Performance (GHAN, GER, LUX), 2023
Following their second collaborative performance, TABLE OF NEGOTIATION, in which Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] and John Herman explored the constructs and notions of imperfect or non-normative bodies, the two performance artists developed their third collaboration, SILENT NOISE. It is a reflection and a monumental intervention to reimagine the relationship of the body to global politics, power dynamics, time, space, privilege and vulnerability.
As an intervention, the artists will reclaim the invitation of Bert Theis' work PHILOSOPHICAL PLATFORM in Belval (Lux) - said white platform was inspired by the staircase in Raphael's School of Athens in the Vatican Stanze on which the great Greek philosophers are depicted. It invites the public to witness, observe, participate, rethink and contemplate on eclectic bodies and selective solidarity.
