Draft:Anawana Haloba

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Anawana Haloba (born 1978) is a contemporary performance artist. She is from Livingstone, Zambia which is often a cornerstone in her work.

Haloba received her BA from the National Academy of Arts in Oslo and is also a graduate of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, a visual art school, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Her works are often an exploration of cultural identity.

One of Haloba's most recent works, Negotiating the Subtle Encounters: An Experimental Opera is a performance piece based on African philosophy and challenges the notion of the opera is a European high society practice. She borrows from South African and Zambian cultures for this piece.

She was quoted, "We identify based on history, and history has a colonial past, which all human beings share either through the heritage of the colonized or the colonizer or by associations of ethnicity. Since we equally share a DNA of trauma, to fully accept responsibility for the shared trauma is the start of dialogue.”

She also recently put on a piece titled, Close Up. It is an installation piece, and a "close up of cultural extension". The work is blocks of soaps hanging from the ceiling so they look like they are floating. They melt down and the liquid drops into a dish and a microphone records each drop. You can hear each drop and the artist describes it as a kind of symphony.

Haloba is still an active artist working between Zambia and Oslo, Norway.

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