Bintou Dembelé’s De la création marronne / On Maroon Creativity
Screening of S/T/R/A/T/E/S Quartet and GROOVE and discussion between Bintou Dembelé and Mame-Fatou Niang
in French with English translation
Bintou Dembelé will show and discuss two of the dance films she directed, S/T/R/A/T/E/S-Quartet and GROOVE, and join with Mame-Fatou Niang in a wide-ranging conversation about her artistic approach and how she views her place as an artist.
A prominent pioneering artist on the French hip-hop scene, shaped by a wide range of influences, Bintou Dembelé’s work explores marginalized cultures as well as ritual and corporeal memories, gender roles, and wounds of the past and the possibility to move beyond them through strategies of reappropriation. She has collaborated with numerous artists, and her performances draw on various aesthetics from the worlds of dance, music, voice, and the visual arts.
Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French Studies, the Founder | Director of the Center for Black European Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, and an Artist-in-Residence at Ateliers Médicis.
