Angnaa 2024

Angnaa, a multi-sensory video installation, weaves together the intertwined themes of memory, performance, and regeneration, inviting spatial and durational contexts of nourishment and collective growth. The term ‘Angnaa’ encompasses multiple meanings: it refers to the kitchen garden patch outside a home, a woman's body, and the concept of the imperishable. These interpretations connect key themes of the work, considering the choreographies of a kitchen garden from a broad social perspective.

From the ritualistic, physical movements of gardening, to the metaphorical transitions of meanings, anecdotal knowledge, maternal history, and the cosmologies of the garden itself, the choreography integrates performance as a mode of voluntary remembrance. The performance also activates the archival potentials of materials like seeds and soil, which cumulatively transform how the body moves, functions, exists, remembers, and rests. 

The installation invites viewers to reflect on the eco-political implications of routines of self-fulfilment and our relationship to the land, and how these routines sustain structures of care, kinship, and solidarity.

Performers/ collaborators : Natifah White and Chelsea Gordon


(Curated by Dwayne Church-Simms for Fabric Dance,
as a part of Transform Festival led by New Art Exchange)