Ana Pi

'NoirBLUE – side B' is an in-situ solo performance taking place in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's attic. Brazilian choreographer and artist Ana Pi moves there between concepts of uprootedness, belonging, memory, colours and everyday gestures, starting from healing processes and the radical imagination of dance of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. It grew out of an etymological observation that some historical languages have no word for 'blue' and even reject the word for 'black', from which the artist imagines an Atlantic journey between the blackness of skin and ultramarine blue pigment to undermine structures of invisibility. At the KW, choreography and black light alter the perception of the body, while the vinyl soundscape rooted in dub music by Jideh High Elements carries the gestures into a space of timeless permanence – amid KOO JEONG A's installation [ SEVEN STARS ], made of phosphorescent paintings.