CounterCurrent19 – Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: Sitting on a Man’s Head
Project Row Houses 2521 Holman St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe practice of “sitting on a man” was one of the many disruptive durational protest practices used by women in Southeastern Nigeria, it was a traditional exercise of their collective power and it became a vital tool throughout the period of British colonial rule. In Sitting on a Man’s Head, the space of restoration and …