D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER

The body with Cherish Menzo: fictitious, speculative, hypothetical – a galaxy unto itself, in full acceleration. Together with her performance partner Camilo Mejía Cortés, she starts searching for an opportunity to rid her body of fixed, permanent ascriptions, to disengage it from the reality in which she moves. The gaze, therefore, goes up to the stars. In space, between colliding black holes, they both find what they seek: Inspired by posthumanism and Afrofuturism they bear a new, enigmatic anti-body in the dark matter.

As in her previous piece JEZEBEL, Cherish Menzo employs a procedure taken from hip hop music: The so-called chopped and screwed method, originally a remix technique that massively reduces the music’s speed, is transferred onto the performers’ movements. In their drastic retardation, a simultaneous sense of time dilatation is accomplished, allowing for new interpretational approaches. An (Afro)futurist manifest, a danced remix.