Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura

Artist-in-residence
Project: Wild Woman Part I: The Bone Collector

"How can performance art awaken and express the suppressed soul voice of the feminine psyche through ritual, body, sound, and myth?"

Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura is a multidisciplinary performer, storyteller, and visual artist drawing from her West African (Sierra Leonean) heritage and her lived experience in the Western world. Her work merges ritual, poetry, music and embodiment. Known for her vivid and ritualistic performances, she explores themes of ancestry, identity, and the divine feminine.

During Welcome To Our Guesthouse Bangura delves into Wild Woman Part I: The Bone Collector - a research project that reclaims the archetype of the Wild Woman through Vodou/Vodun cosmology, Afro-Futurist imagery, and performative ritual.

Through voice, body, sound, and visual symbolism The Bone Collector explores the psychological and spiritual terrain of liberation and ancestral connection. Along the way, suppressed wisdom is reawakened and societal norms surrounding the female body and spirit are challenged.