Bond[H2o]
Bond[H2o]
Duo performance by crazinisT artisT [Vabene Elikem Fiatsi] & John Herman
CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival 2017 'WATA MATA'
19th August 2017,
James Fort Prison,
Accra, Ghana
This performance explore human vulnerability, death, life struggles, failures, the-will-to-survive and the aesthetics to human BONDS...
While searching hopelessly in the mud and bones for everything but nothing, John Herman and I attempt to reexamine human sense of incompleteness and otherness. We struggle out onto the street after several hours of failures in the prison- mud, walking, falling, crawling and dragging ourselves to a distance of 700m where the performance ended lasting for about 3 hours sustaining bruises and cuts all over our bodies.
Conceptual framework of Bond[H2O]
The human mammalian does not exist alone; a number of factors, circumstances, and constructs solidify our identity as human beings betwixt one another; society, tribes, family, relatives, customs
and traditions, political economy, political powers, social constructs, gender roles, cultural and social beliefs, religions and climatic conditions. Variations in such practices, experiences,
and conditions contribute to the huge diversity so evident in humanity, becoming a vivid [biomatrix] that is connected, contradictory, and ever-transforming. Yet in spite of this vast diversity
in human life, there is a common string that ties together humans, mammalians, and other beings- [Water]. Ever since their beginnings, human have sought freedom and justice, and yet their
passionate desires have collided with the invisible boundaries of society.
We [“crazinisT artist”, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (Kumasi, Ghana) and John Herman (Cologne, Germany)] put up a durational performance and
living installation during the 7th edition of Chale Wote Art Festival, 'Wata Mata' that challenge the extreme possibilities of human desires and "the will to survive".
Our collaboration on the other hand questions the borders, migrations, wars and deaths, the utopian spaces and lives, as well as the cultural repressions and class privileges that structure
internal mobilities in other ways. However, It is an investigative commentary into how water -a veritable common denominator of our shared existence binds social ecology together in ways that
nurture peaceable interchange as well as provide deadly routes for unmaking lives and [death]