Eyilá ashé ebbora - archivo vivo de la resistencia
Residency | 18–30.07.2024 | Pazo da Cultura de Carballo
Presentation | 17.10.2024 | 20.00 h | FIOT – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Carballo
Eyilá ashé ebbora – archivo vivo de la resistencia is a scenic creation project that explores spirituality as a political force for social transformation. It draws inspiration from the subaltern knowledge of Afro, trans, racialized, and migrant people from the global South, as well as from the Black feminisms emerging in Spain.
Eyilá ashé ebbora – archivo vivo de la resistencia is the second investigation in the scenic series "Opira," initiated in Cuba in 2019, which seeks to explore the intersection between the Yoruba philosophical body, Afro-Caribbean rituals, and contemporary performativities. It is an exercise in combining the spiritual and the material through deep and critical listening to the paths and destinies proposed by each of the twelve signs of the diloggún (an ancestral Yoruba divination system in the Osha Ifa Rule, practiced in Nigeria, Benin, Cuba, Brazil, and other countries in the Caribbean and AbyaYala) to address the issues of our contemporary societies.
José Ramón Hernández / Osikán - vivero de creación
José Ramón Hernández (Palma Soriano, Cuba, 1988) is an interdisciplinary Afro-Cuban artist graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba. He is the founder and artistic director of Osikán - viveiro de creación. His practice encompasses artistic direction, dramaturgy, choreography, live arts curation, installation, performance, education, mediation, and cultural management. His creative research focuses on Afro-descendant ritualities, the performativity of peripheral corporealities, materials, spiritualities, memories, migrations, cartographies, and desires. He explores the boundaries between fiction and reality, working with non-fictional documents and sensory tools to affect and intervene in social processes and communities.