During Bwa Kayiman: Crossing the Mangrove, Kolektif Choublak occupies HKW’s Sylvia Wynter Foyer with their installation Visions d’un jardin tropical: A Multisensorial Dreamscape of Haitian Diasporic Experiences and a programme of live performative interventions by its members and dance artists Lia Estelle Widmaier and John Shades. 

Formed by Haitian artists, academics, and activists living in Germany, Kolektif Choublak expands and iterates the installation Diaspora Daydreams Kiosk, created in 2024 by one of its members, Yann-Olivier Kersaint. Including flags developed by artist Jean Ulrick Désert, the collective assembles cultural artefacts, multidisciplinary art contributions, and sensorial atmospheres as fragments that articulate Haiti as a dispersed and plural experience, shaped through memory, migration, and imagination. As an expansion of the kiosk, their 2026 installation counters dominant narratives and imaginaries about Haiti by foregrounding everyday life, intimacy, and heterogeneity within its diaspora. The tropical garden they refer to in their proposition title is a convivial hang-out environment, hosted by its members throughout the festival weekend. Like a mangrove, this relational space—situated at the centre of Bwa Kayiman—is a declaration of commitment to relational knowledge, ecological thinking, and diasporic imagination. 

Throughout the festival, the installation offers a space for people to gather, sense, exchange, and participate in its evolving ecology. On Saturday night, collective members and accompanying artists activate the installation through a series of brief, live spoken word and dance interventions, while a DJ set gently invites audiences to linger, socialize, and explore its content. On Sunday evening, the installation remains accessible after the last act of the festival, offering a moment of closure in which to come together a last time, share reflections, exchange farewells, and slowly transition out until next time.