IN CHARACTER: Shaquille-Aaron Keith x Harry Edohoukwa

IN CHARACTER is an ongoing exploration of performance and the different ways we show up in the world. For Chapter One, CES ENFANTS brought together Harry Edohoukwa and Shaquille-Aaron Keith, two artists whose relationship with performance sits on opposing sides of extroversion and introversion. For Harry, a musician, performance is outward, something lived in front of an audience. For Shaquille, an artist, it is more private, translating an internal vision onto canvas behind closed doors. The film brings those two perspectives into conversation, exploring what performance means when it is both something we put on and something we live within. Moving through three chapters, Scent / Memory, Extrovert / Introvert, and The Art of Becoming, their conversation also considers the cultural experiences that shaped them. As two Black men, one of Caribbean heritage and the other Nigerian, scent becomes a thread through memories of upbringing, identity and the influences that continue to inform how they show up today. At the centre is EXTROVERTED // INTROVERT, our first exploration of Performance. Rather than explaining the fragrance, IN CHARACTER extends the world around it, using conversation to explore the human experience from which it was created. Chapter One was screened at Shoreditch Arts Club in London, followed by a conversation moderated by Sharufa Yuma, taking the questions explored on screen into the room. IN CHARACTER is a living study of performance, told through the people who live it. Chapter One is only the beginning.

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