Open Daily 9:30–6:00, Monday Until 8:00
Write Mudimbe, dance, slam my King is a multidisciplinary performance that explores the intellectual and poetic legacy—as well as the grandeur of the work—of Valentin Yves Mudimbe through writing (correspondence), contemporary dance, and slam poetry, along with music (singing and rap), sound and visual art, and the visual arts (painting).
It’s as much a tribute to Mudimbe, that iconic Congolese figure, as it is to his magnificent body of work and the colonial library he left behind for all Africans—and more specifically, for all Congolese people. It is also a narrative ceremony in which words, gestures, rhythm, and drawings embody the tensions, silences, and resonances of the postcolonial world. Through correspondence, slam poetry, and visual art, it also explores the feud that took place in Lubumbashi between Valentin Yves Mudimbe and Georges Ng’aal, two renowned figures who propelled Lushan literature in the 1970s, before Mudimbe’s exile to the United States.
