Ligia Lewis: A Plot / A Scandal

In the frame of Moving in November

A plot is a word referring to a story or narrative, a piece of land or property, and the act of scheming or plotting. Intricately entangled in a three-part play, A Plot / A Scandal engages themes of “scandal” and resistance on the island of Hispaniola, and the greater Caribbean. Ligia Lewis explores such pleasures and their cost weaving together a series of historical events, political laws, and mythical narratives, ranging from John Locke’s treatise on white man’s ‘natural rights’ to life, liberty, and property, to Jose Aponte’s revolutionary plot that led to the antislave rebellion in 1812, to Lewis’s great-grandmother, a guiding figure for the community who unfolded alternative forms of resistance such as the Palo dance. Thus, A Plot / A Scandal operates as a site of visibility and concealment, inviting the scandal of rebellion at the edges of representation.
In Moving in November A Plot / A Scandal is performed by Vânia Doutel Vaz. Picture©Moritz Freudenberg

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