SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE

09 JUNE - 22h00 until 22h15 (outdoor projection)
location: Drie Gapers, Oostende

Collectif Faire-part invited poet Marie Paule Mugeni to write a speech for the day the statue of Leopold II will be removed from a central Brussels square. Marie Paule suggests to look at Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where colonial monuments have been taken out of the streets and brought to a museum several decades ago. Maybe we should reconsider who’s lagging behind?

The pedestal becomes a projection screen for archival images of Belgian monuments arriving in a Congolese museum.
’It’s an image that speaks to our times, big fixed ideas loaded into vans, dangling from cranes, while we wonder where their places are.’

w/Marie Paule Mugeni, Rob Jacobs, Benjamine Laini Lusalusa (text), Anne Reijniers (camera), Innocent Coppieters (projection)