Time & Location
05 Dec 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
Cotonou, Cotonou, Benin
About the event
Everything moves, and memory is transmission itself.
Everything is movement. Humanity itself is movement, the very core of our existence. To borrow the words of Achille Mbembe, the history of humanity is a history of circulation.
But if everything moves, what remains of us?What endures of the body, of being, of memory?Who are we when everything around us shifts?What shapes our identities, both personal and collective?What is left when things relocate, transform, or fade?
Our multiple inheritances shape how we see the world, how we see others, and how we understand ourselves. They inhabit us, traverse us, and often define us in silence. At a time when identity-driven narratives sometimes overlook the interconnectedness of our memories, when the past is reshaped, silenced, or erased, intangible heritage and transmission become crucial. In an era marked by conversations on restitution, repair, development, reconstruction, and transformation, it becomes urgent to question what cannot be touched: intimate memory,…