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An Ostrich Learns to Fly, 2023

An Ostrich Learns to Fly looks at parade Flag belts. wearing this, the body becomes the Flag, and the self, in consequence, the Nation. the relationship between the two is explored through this corporeal tension.

looking at Patria as an imagined space removed from the walkable Land, whose pursuit is eternal and unrealized, this work processes the conflation of the self to the phenomenon of nationhood. it looks at the manifestation of national identification as a form of method-acting, paying close attention and embodying the inevitable breaks of character pertinent to a choreographed existence. the conception of Angolaneity is examined though its rootedness in the nation’s reactionary post-independence uni-Partisanship – and itssubsequent transition to a dominant-party system – where the development of the New Man was in mutual entanglement with the nation’s long-lived conflict backdropped by the Cold War.

An Ostrich Learns to Fly is interested in the meeting point of fabrication and fidelity. in it, an ontology of eternal liminality emerges where the sacred and the natural are in constant odds with each other. in this performance, as the body personifies an uncanny movement and existence, one’s identity becomes fused and obliged to the unattainable.