‘Echo’ – A Performance led by Henrique J. Paris

Echo is a performance that invites performer(s) to enter Henrique J. Paris’s installation, engaging with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s scores on paper through movement and touch, adjusting, shifting, and folding them into the spatial experience.

In this act of interaction, the installation gains new resonance. The performance reflects on how memory can be stirred through gesture, and how these musical documents come to inhabit a space shaped by slowness and close observation, opening up possibilities for how we might hold, witness, and move with history.

ABOUT HENRIQUE J. PARIS

Henrique J. Paris is an Angolan artist-researcher, graduated in Philosophy and currently completing a postgraduate degree in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His artistic practice dissects philosophical, scenographic, and architectural frameworks. He examines enacted modes of power, moral codes, anticolonial praxis and Christian discipleship. J. Paris has explored these themes through image-making, multimedia installations, sound-oriented performance and cultural production. These formats serve as tools of contestation, re-memory, and testimony. His previous projects include the 2019 solo exhibition ‘Home Is Where The Body Isn’t’, Proyecto de Movilidad Panamá-Angola-Portugal with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Panama, Álbuns de Família at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon, Body as Testimony with Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Field Notes with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and Family Lines with the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.