Docu-fiction (11 minutes), Dance notation system, Sound
2020
IKOCE is a research-led artistic project exploring how unofficial bodies can act as archives—preserving intangible cultural heritage and carrying forward forms of embodied knowledge that are often fleeting, undocumented, or overlooked. Blending speculative storytelling, field research, and oral histories, the work reimagines Ikoce as a subtle act of resistance that may have emerged during the forced conscription of Lango men into the King’s African Rifles in the Second World War. Through video, sculpture, sound, and performance, IKOCE considers how memory is carried in bodies, gestures, and collective ritual.
At its core, the project asks how an ephemeral cultural practice can be reactivated in the present — not simply preserved, but collectively re-invented across time and place.
Ikoce volume I (film) was made possible by the generous support of African Culture Fund.
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