performance with Peter D. Abayomi aka Peter Bàtà
at planetary thinking, university of Lagos 
latex, pulley, PE and Nylon rope, nigerian speaking Drums 

The work takes the idea of the ecological footprint as a starting point to think about labor, travel and privilege. This implements a response to our socialization in  the tradition of male dominance and “white”, capitalist supremacy. It is a reflecting tool, a critical gaze, to think of once own entanglement with these power structures in search for strategies of undermining them. 
Performative footprints- plural, may stand for a journey, a walk through the city or the relic of a dance. Our project combined all three of them. It is a performative dialog between acrobatics and nigerian speaking drums, an ancient communication tool, which is still used in contemporary nigerian music. 
I am pulling myself up to the sealing using a large footprint glued from latex as counterweight. As I use physical labor to lift myself up, my weight also detaches the footprint from the floor. The System works like a balancing scale. Lifting myself up is only possible until the footprint sticks to the ground. It is broken once the footprint is fully detached.

Nigerian Ideology offers the term “crossroad” to describe these entangled relations: “Crossroads” are liminal spaces where humans and ancestors, the living and the dead, coexist. In our project Nigerian music, with a blend of indigenous concepts and tunes, is the key to bring back the Nigerian – African ideology behind “Crossroad” in a way that offers communal listenership. 
The Ancient ideology to public art, site specific-ness and to crossroad has been the mode of creating works and performances in Africa, which is done, watched, performed, by its people in its community.