Akwasi Bediako Afrane – CERBERUS T-26: Dance of Dialogue, 2026

Dance of Dialogue leads visitors through a labyrinth of obsolete electronics. Circuit boards, monitors, servers, printers, Ethernet cables and other items form narrow corridors that cross, divide and turn back on themselves. Their arrangement follows the logic of a printed circuit board, in which each component functions through its connections to the others. The installation was developed in part through workshops with staff and patients at the Pavillon Jean Dechaume of the Hôpital Saint Jean de Dieu and with residents of Écully, a city located to the south of Lyon. The workshops took the form of conversation and the collective gathering, dismantling and reassembly of discarded electronic devices. Through this shared process, objects judged outdated become useful and meaningful again. Their reassembly gives material form to an economy in which value is produced collectively: the product is community.

Akwasi Bediako Afrane develops his projects from the accumulation of electronic waste generated by our contemporary societies, which he repurposes and transforms into artworks, often in participatory forms. Through processes of transformation and reassembly, they become living forms at a human scale, making visible the infrastructures and residues of digital economies. His work foregrounds the opacity surrounding our continuous consumption of these technologies – we remain largely unaware of how they function, their actual capacities and what they can absorb from our thoughts, interests and desires – as well as the environmental and social consequences embedded in systems of consumption and obsolescence.

This work was created as part of Biennale en territoires. It was the subject of an extended creation project led with the artist Akwasi Bediako Afrane, involving residents of the Les Sources neighbourhood in Écully, as well as patients and staff from the Jean Dechaule Pavilion at the Saint-Jean de Dieu Hospital in Oullins-Pierre-Bénite.