Transposition by Yinka Esi Graves

As part of the series Colonial Memory II. Tuning in to the whispers, the museum is presenting the performance Transposition by British creator, choreographer and flamenco artist Yinka Esi Graves. 

Hack, stalk, commune, camouflage as technique 
Hack, stalk, commune, Hack, stalk, commune, Hack, stalk, commune, Hack, stalk, commune, transpose invisibility 

Make it a dance, repeat it 

Yinka Esi Graves' work explores the links between flamenco and other forms of bodily expression from a contemporary perspective and as part of the African diaspora in Europe. With this performance she continues to reflect on how to navigate between intimate spaces and sudden overexposure in order to avoid being "burned out" by the light. This dialogue places flamenco at the heart of questions surrounding the invisibility and hypervisibility of Black people. 

Camouflage becomes the action that gives voice to this being, while revealing the spaces in which it refuses to disappear.

Transposition is a performance based on the use of improvisation and knowledge of the body in order to explore how they relate to history and memory. In this work Graves uses the very construction of the representation to reaffirm dance and flamenco as a space of freedom and self-determination