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Black Fever ( From series of Cry from Dark )
Egijbo , Afriperforma International Residency ,Lagos ,Nigeria 2013
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Performed as Part of Afiriperforma International Residency .This was last performance for the year 2013 on 27 December done in Ejigbo
,Lagos, Nigeria. This was one more performance done on issue of rape crime on women in respect to socio-cultural situation in Lagos
especially in Ejigbo area. The core concept was already worked out but I was also improvising to bring in cultural element of Yoruba culture
and wanted to intermingle with local people during my performance. in one of discussion someone came out with outburst of news the
leak in YouTube of local women tortured by police in Ejigbo it was about how an police official tortured one women by inserting spices in
her private part because she had steal small amount of spice in market. This was shocking news and issue of concern so then my thought
narrowed down to same thoughts of justice and humanity and respect to women the issues of rapes violence against women there seems
to be no stop for crimes, I made my mind to perform to bring this concern this time I used local traditional hair dress 'Gele' to represent
the mass Yoruba girls along with their name written on my face. I asked the local ladies to tie this head dress in public. I had chosen my
spot in one corner where four road meet and where people catch local yellow cabs and it is busy with heavy traffic. The performance was
a durational performance went for an hour where I interacted with local people of Yoruba community with audio. I used audio which were
circulated through multiple ear phones to my audience and one to one interaction with my audience.