Radical Creative Practices

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Radical Creative Practices

What role does the body play in constructing contemporary artistic vocabularies? How can the colonial narrative be dismantled through creation?

Qudus Onikeku is one of Nigeria’s most internationally renowned choreographers. From the standpoint of the African experience, his work reflects on universal questions like the diaspora, memory, and identity. In this session he will present his piece “Africaman Original”, which is inspired by black African dance, which is then combined with images.

The performance will be followed by a discussion between Qudus Onikeku and the anthropologist Aída Bueno in which they will talk about the ways in which contemporary creative practices can shape a discourse that questions the hegemony of western thought and introduces other narratives and life experiences that have been denied and scorned in the colonial legacy.

In this session two pieces by “Ella Poema”, a video-dance project aiming to give visibility to young artists from all around Africa, will also be screened. They are 'Cine mudo', and 'No luz'. 

This event is one of the activities programmed for the Africa Moment Festival, an international gathering of contemporary African performing arts.

This event will be hosted in Spanish and English, with a simultaneous translation from English - Spanish.

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