This third session offers to examine the ambivalent idea of self-determination throughout Kapwani Kiwanga’s work. We will revisit her conference-performances practice with a few deviations around some of her other artworks (Ujamaa and the socialist villagisation in Tanzania, or The Marias and women rights to their own bodies…) to try and connect bodies’ self-determination and self-governance lifestyles, between domination, care and corporal knowledge, and between alienated, alien and cyborg bodies.
Following Kapwani Kiwanga’s speculative and anthropological approach, we will discuss the way some esthetic operations such as disidentification, assembling or anachronism, can offer lines of thought for a self-determined – social or individual – body.

Kapwani Kiwanga’s solo show “Cima Cima” was presented at Crédac – Centre of Contemporary Art, Ivry in July 2021.