SALIVATING THE KNOTS OF THE BODY
technologies, but spaces of creation, speculation and transcendence.
My work methodology consists in promoting the meeting between artists who carry this Afrodiasporic past, and who are dispersed in different parts of the world, in order to share their life technologies. The work Movement III_Celebration: post-tsunami foams, a filmic choreography launched in 2021, in Helsinki, Finland, is the most visible result of this process.
I define Afrotranstopia as the intersection between life technologies, existences and Afrotranscendences. In this concept, two interpretations of technology are at stake. A current notion of technology, for example the use of augmented reality for creation in dance, and technology as mobilization and activation of matriarchal, ancestral and Afrodiasporic knowledges, ways of life (existences) and resistance. I consider these life strategies of the original peoples, on both sides of the Atlantic, of staying alive even when it seems impossible, as Afrotranscendences. Activating these technologies means, therefore, not only building spaces of training and sharing that support the manifestation and diffusion of these
