“Play You is Me!”: Third Space Rituals, Memory & the Performance of Self as Pedagogy

This paper reflects upon an in-progress, exploratory piece of digital theatre adapted from Zeno Constance's seminal bildungsroman The Ritual. In this work, Black women engage in a process of theorising liberatory practices to (re)cognise embodied technologies. inherent in their bodies. Herein I raise the argument that an arts-based research approach is a decolonising onto-epistemological undertaking with the capacity to make Black women cognisant of, extract, and apply the knowledges held in their bodies. This proposed process also allows for a measured consideration of the possibilities of using ritual theatre and embodied knowledge(s) in digital space as a means of analysing lived experiences, transgenerational communication and the imaging/imagining of futurisms.