NEKUIA
/Villa Albertine presentation
The project is developed on a mid-scale production framework, with production partners already involved in France. The Villa Albertine residency is dedicated to research, immersion and fieldwork, outside of production constraints.
“In the world I am moving towards,
I am continually creating myself.”
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks
FORMAT: Solo performance
Premiere for season 27-28
Estimated duration: 55 min
NEKUIA PROCESS
Poush, Paris, 2025
GLOBAL PREVISIONAL TIMETABLE
RESEARCH AXIS FOR THE VILLA ALBERTINE
/The residency unfolds through overlaping temporalities. Recurrent activations, periods of immersion and open engagments coexist within a shared based.
WATER / PAST / PRINTS
Dramaturgie - ACT I : APPARITION
/VILLA ALBERTINE OBJECTIVE : to charge the process. To summon memories, to collect traces and activate subterranean layers
L'AGENOUILLÉE OU LE PASSAGE DU TEMPS
Performance (3hours), off Horizone festival, Colmer-le-bas, 2024
WATER REMEMBERS
RELATION / PRESENT / SHARED TISSUES
Dramaturgie - ACT II : TRANSFORMATION
/VILLA ALBERTINE OBJECTIVE : to put these materials into play through public performative activations. To generate circulation, encounter and shared experience. To allow narrative to emerge through practice
OPEN STUDIO NEKUIA
Ongoing creation, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur Seine, 2025
RELATIONAL TENSEGRITY
SHIFT/ FUTURE / COLLECTIVE STRUCTURES
Dramaturgie - ACT III : CARNIVALESQUE CHOREOGRAPHIE (FOUND BY PERFORMATIVE ACTIVATION)
/VILLA ALBERTINE OBJECTIVE : to let the experience infuse to write the end of Nekuia piece.
I FEAR MADNESS MORE THAN DEATH.
IT'S FUNNY HOW STRIKING DREAMS LEAVE THEIR IMRINTS IN THE SPACE AS MEMORY.
NO WONDER THEN THAT SOME DREAMS ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE FUTURE SINCE THEY INDEED RESIDE IN THE PRESENT IN THE CHAMBER OF THE PAST.
ONE DAY I REALIZED YOU MUST FIRST KNOW IN ORDER TO FORGET.
YOU CAN NOT FORGET SOMETHING YOU NEVER KNEW.
FORGETTING CARRIES THE WEIGHT OF ABSENCE.
IT HOLDS THE EMPTINESS OF WHAT WAS ONCE WHOLE.
LIKE A SHADOW. A GHOST. LIKE THIS MASK
