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  • OPEN SKIES OF NIGHT: On Car...
    Bergs, Steyn

    Esse, 03/2024, Letnik: 111, Številka: 111
    Journal Article

    Bergs discusses Caroline Déodat's video work "Sous le ciel des fétiches," which explores the history and cultural significance of Sega, a genre of music and dance from Mauritius, and its entanglement with colonialism and tourism. Sous le ciel des fétiches is a sixteen-minute video that addresses the entanglement of the present-day tourist industry with much longer histories of travel, spectatorship, and exploitation throughout the colonial era. In Déodat's work, Sega is examined as a compromised and problematic, yet resistant, phenomenon--the history and reception of which is deeply informed by and intertwined with the colonial history of Mauritius, which did not become independent until 1968. More specifically, she is interested in the fetishization of the dance (and of the Black bodies performing it), which commenced in colonial times and extends into the present, as commercialized and commodified variations have become a common spectacle and tourist attraction.