The snake's venom is our medicine
Afrontosas Collective
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Date
- 16:30 / Cancelled 16:30 / Sold out Saturday, 16:30
Location
MargemGulbenkian Garden
Postponed due to weather conditions. New date to be announced.
In this performance, the Afrontosas Collective pays tribute to Oxumare and his connection with the snake, a sacred symbol that spans cultures.
The action proposes an immersion in the invisible and the mysterious as spaces of symbolic reparation, where the body asserts itself as a territory of resistance and reconstitution.
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
The performance is subject to weather conditions.
Biographies
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Coletivo Afrontosas
O Coletivo Afrontosas é uma Associação Cultural que nasceu a partir de encontros de pessoas negras/racializadas cuír ligadas ao mundo das artes, da educação e da celebração motivadas pela ausência de projetos que reflitam sobre a importância da negritude cuír da diáspora em Portugal em confluência com os trânsitos migratórios da América Latina, África e outras regiões.
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Di Candido aka DIDI
A transdisciplinary artist, her work combines research and artistic-cultural production, curating, performance art, and DJing. They have founded a series of collectives and events that give visibility to black, queer and immigrant subjectivities in Portugal, notably the artistic collectives @afro__ntosas and @uniaonegradasartes, the body- and sex-positive party platform @curvycurvs and the creative unit @bee_lx. Her work addresses themes such as collective (re)territorialisation, queer ecology and mythologies, identities and anti-racist activism, with a focus on queer, black and migrant communities in the diaspora.
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ROD
Visual artist and researcher. He completed a post-doc degree at the University of Minho, a PhD in Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and a master’s degree at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. His artistic practice develops in the field of decolonial criticism, exploring visualities that challenge hegemonic norms and modes of representation associated with black and queer identities and other historically marginalised experiences. He has contributed to the contemporary debate on image politics, dissident bodies, and artistic practices committed to social justice. He helped create the Afrontosas Collective and the Black Union of the Arts.
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tony omolu
A hybrid artist whose poetics are defined by a constant search for transcendence of the boundaries of the body and Eurocentric representation. Navigating between the waters of theatre, African-based dances from Brazil and contemporary dance, her creation is permeated by queer and anti-racist experience, while artistic practice is an instrument of ethical-aesthetic-political action, where the body dilates, expanding into ancestral energy, challenging conventions and norms. Her works integrate aesthetics and techniques rooted in Afro-Brazilian culture, a central concept that guides her artistic practice and thinking. She has a master’s degree in Theatre with research on Afro-Brazilian dance methodology, a postgraduate degree in Theatre Performance and a degree in Philosophy.
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Raquel Pimentel
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