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In this video-installation + performance, dancer and multimedia artist Emmanuel Ndefo highlights how precolonial African cultural practices defy the often simplified and binary western concepts of the body and erotic behaviors. He researched the Nigerian ritual tradition ‘Adamma’, which means ‘beautiful daughter’ in Igbo Language. In this ritual, men perform flirtatious dances in public, wearing traditional women’s clothes and a wooden mask painted with a woman's face.
Emmanuel will also talk more about decolonizing practices in a panel talk at the MAS museum in August.
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