Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, work in progress, Dance City, Newcastle. Photos: Fly Films UK
Elisabeth efua sutherland
Elisabeth Efua Sutherland comes from a background in theatre and dance. She is concerned with layered colonial histories, following bodies through different geographies and spaces by diving into images, texts, maps, landscapes, and traces of feet and where they once trod.
Her research is driven by a desire to map stories, bodies and mythologies, and to examine the visibility (or lack of) and curation of black and African histories. She explores the power relationships of our past to our future; and the idea of custodianship of people, narratives, culture, history, and the future.
Elisabeth is one of the artists taking part in Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues, a programme exploring the problematic legacy of European colonialism through artistic production and exchange.
She is the founder of Terra Alta, an artist-led performing arts space in Accra, Ghana.
Her research is driven by a desire to map stories, bodies and mythologies, and to examine the visibility (or lack of) and curation of black and African histories. She explores the power relationships of our past to our future; and the idea of custodianship of people, narratives, culture, history, and the future.
Elisabeth is one of the artists taking part in Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues, a programme exploring the problematic legacy of European colonialism through artistic production and exchange.
She is the founder of Terra Alta, an artist-led performing arts space in Accra, Ghana.
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