Bernard Akoi-Jackson | Untitled: Flaggings IN MEMORIAM in the BLUES on some CUES and when WAX ain’t so LOST (a sketchy score for some processional gestures and an eventual celebratory discussion)

The work unfolds as a series of performative interventions manifest as processional gestures, fictive liturgical invocations, leading eventually to a day of collective re-membering (a gathering). These actions hinge tangentially on observations made from the contemporary public sphere, but are also somehow inspired by visual, textual, and gestural vocabularies culled from a variety of sources. Some of the registers may be recognized as codified vestiges from antiquity, whilst others also emerge spontaneously from present experience(s). The entire experience comprises the employment of strategies of communal/participatory activation of shared public and private spaces. The interventions present over three seasons or sessions: a libation-[al] season involves the pseudo-ritual preparation and cleansing of sites identified and designated for the hoisting of flags and standards; a habit-[ual] season refers to the actual hoisting of flags and indigo-dyed standards at the designated sites; an agyina[-al] season where a collective remembering is acknowledged through discussion and the invocation of an almost eucharistic finale.

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