Haman Mpadire is an artist, performance maker and dance teacher born in Eastern Uganda, originally from Busoga tribe. He graduated with a diploma in contemporary dance from École des Sables and Master's degree in Choreography from CCN - Paul Valery University. He is a danceWEB scholarship holder and Visa for creation laureate program of French institute Paris. His artistic practices involve the body as a medium that embodies entities that are not seen but their presence is felt in space. Furthermore, Haman explores animistic notions of ancient Busoga kingdom and beyond + complex relationships between identity, visibility and colonialism towards black African bodies. ''We are unapologetically stepping into the black future with ancestral joy''

Omukalegwe Y'watambu Meggyic éravjjaka (What does it mean to be)

African

Black

Male

Female

Queer

Artist

Animistic

My fantasy appropriates through imagining multidimensional space where the impossible becomes possible, in this work Haman Mpadire prefers to be called the witch-scientist who desires and invented a time travel machine, reinvented histories + constructed Human Zoo thus branding an alternative narrative to return from intergenerational trauma. He simply invites the spectators to TOUCH - FEEL - OBSERVE, the situated site-specific objects, body in performance, writings and video installation.