Sonic Acts 2019: Louis Henderson – Dialect of hurricanes. Patois of rains. Language of storms. Un...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER

Louis Henderson – Dialect of hurricanes. Patois of rains. Language of storms. Unfolding of life in a spiral. – Introduction by Mirna Belina

24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Unfurling like a fiddlehead fern fond in a forest, the word ‘creole’ comes from the Greek root *ḱer- meaning to grow, to nourish. Celebrating the vast possibilities of translating both into and from Haitian Creole, this talk will describe how the artist group The Living and the Dead Ensemble unravelled into being by translating the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant, from French to Haitian Creole.

The group put Glissant’s work into motion as a means to critique and test the limits of his philosophy within a contemporary Haitian context. The Haitian poet Frankétienne offers a way out through the spiralling voice of the We.

Louis Henderson is a filmmaker who is trying to find new ways of working with people to address and question our current global condition defined by racial capitalism and ever-present histories of the European colonial project. Interested in exploring the sonic space of images, his work aims to develop an archaeological method in cinema, listening to the echoes and spirals of the stratigraphic. Since 2017, Henderson has been working within the artist group The Living and the Dead Ensemble. Based between Haiti and France, they focus on theatre, song, slam, poetry and cinema. Henderson has shown his work at various film festivals, exhibitions and biennials worldwide. His work is in the public collection of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France, and is distributed by LUX and Video Data Bank.

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