sweat variant

The adaku trilogy is a speculative mythology about how one family in precolonial West Africa becomes entangled in the transatlantic slave trade. In part two of this mythology, sweat variant investigates the embodied impact of this violent rupture, while also considering the devastating consequences of the theft of artifacts designed to protect ancestral bonds. Developed in part through a technical residency at the Wex, adaku, part 2 is set in the US in the near future. The performance excavates the consequences of erasure when events lead to sudden remembering. What is unleashed in the imagination of a young woman who's been led to believe she has no history worth remembering? What are the multitude of futures she can now imagine? (program approx. 90 mins., no intermission)Come early and explore the galleries to see sweat variant's video installation inspired by physical research for the performance.adaku, part 2 is a stand-alone performance and can be engaged with and enjoyed without first seeing adaku, part 1.IMAGE CAPTIONadaku, part 1, photo: Maria Baranova.