Fri 28 June 2024
Beursschouwburg — RED CORRIDOR — 19:30
Milka Kongi Mbunga, aka the artist Kongi, muse of our wildest and daring nights, tells here about the obsession with blood. She says: “in many of our African cultures the blood of the virgin is the currency that pays for honor. We preserve this flow of blood religiously, so as not to soil the sheet of shame and the entire family with it. The sacred task that wells up on the sheet of purity, diffuses as the obsession grows and floods its existence.
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KONGI
J’OFFRE MON SANG — 60'
In her performance, Kongi embodies the task of offering his blood again and again. The same gesture which for centuries has caused the downfall of women: in marriages where they are denied or in the shame of a still well-established taboo. To offer one’s blood to one’s husband is to offer its integrity, disappear from itself. Bloodshed is a guarantee of passivity.
But she has not said her last word “Eroticised, sexualised, my master forgets the subtlety and divinity of my sacred being, forgetting that I am the very manifestation of the feminine essence, the creator of life, the living incarnation of love and power.” The gesture is generous and the act “empowering”. During the performance, slowly, Kongi is inviting the audience to take a pill made of dry blood and other elements of the feminine power.
