Lizania Cruz: Performing Inquiry

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Lizania Cruz: Performing Inquiry explores the artist’s investigation of the complex histories of the Caribbean, West Africa, and the United States, spanning Afro-religious practices, slavery, migration, colonialism, and nationhood.

For Performing Inquiry, Cruz examines national and personal archives alongside individual testimonies gathered from the public. This investigation, which Cruz sees as a criminal case, moves away from the colonial understanding of history as linear, and instead approaches it as a pluralist narrative that crosses the past, present, and future.

This exhibition focuses on the history of the peninsula of Samaná in Dominican Republic and its connection to the African diaspora via the United States. By using inquiry as a tool, a medium, and form through oral history, archival research, and the documentation of a staged performance of El Bamboulá — a dance and music originally from Africa that can be found in the Dominican Republic as well as in the originating history of Congo Square in New Orleans.

Music by Marv Krown - thinl=k - https://thmatc.co/?l=A9E2D49D
Music by NoGuru - Sun's Daze - https://thmatc.co/?l=423EBB3C

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