Bernard Akoi-Jackson is an artist and writer whose performance-based practice employs “disturbed methodologies,” a critical framework that interrogates postcolonial and decolonial conditions. Trained in painting and sculpture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, he expanded his practice to performance and object-oriented, participatory installations in 2003. In 2007 he began the REDTAPEONBOTTLENECK project, a multidisciplinary participatory work that blends humor and pseudo-ritual as part of a decolonial critique. This and subsequent performances, presented in exhibitions such as An Age of Our Own Making (Reflection II), Roskilde, Denmark; Silence Between the Lines, Kumasi, Ghana; Material Effects, East Lansing, USA; WATA don PASS: Looking West, Lagos, Nigeria, and Malmö, Sweden; and Time, Trade and Travel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Accra, Ghana, create spaces for collective inquiry and reflection on the absurdities in colonial bureaucracy and cultural regulation. Akoi-Jackson is also featured in the invitational exhibition in this year’s edition of La Biennale de Venezia as a member of blaxTARLINES Kumasi collective based in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, College of Art and Built Environment, KNUST, Kumasi.