In Dakar, Senegal with Atelier GF Workstation: Producing costumes, investigating West African textiles and research on the legendary Dakar Laboratoire AGIT’art, for our performance at the Havana Biennial 2019.
LABORATOIRE AGIT’ART - founded in Dakar in 1974, was a revolutionary and subversive art collective that sought to combine traditional African performance and creativity with a modern aesthetic. Established by the artist Issa Samb, the filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, painter El Hadji Sy and the playwright Youssoupha Dione, Laboratoire Agit’Art started an interdisciplinary collective, devising street performances, improvisational happenings, installations and workshops. Although diverse in their practice, they were united in critiquing and challenging the prevailing négritude philosophy in Senegal.
The Supreme Exodus: Masquerades - Négritude Movement - Laboratoire Agit-Art - Afro Latin American Art. - Dakar Team: Iva Jankovic, Samba Thiam, Ibou Sane. - With the generous support of Mondriaan Fonds - Photos by Ibou Havas
