Proposal for Ghetto Byenal

6th Ghetto Biennale: Haitian Revolution and Beyond

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Project proposal:

In recent years I've been doing some research and practice about Haitian revolution and how
could we reenact it in the present (in art context and beyond).

I'd like to spin ideas with artists who are also Vodun practitioners. They could make
propositions for the future (and present) based on marronage, liberation and healing practices,
ways of living together, and conceptions of art that go beyond western logic.

We will also discuss forms of political, economic and social organizing based on indigenous
knowledges and practiced for centuries in response to colonialism/coloniality.

Together with Vodun priest, and in collab with local artists, I'd like to create a performance/ritual that deals with Haitian revolution, current struggles, decolonial love, non-binary ways of perceiving the world, etc.

Rosana Sancin 

Eisa Jocson: Death of a Pole Dancer

Eisa Jocson (Manila) performing "Death of a Pole Dancer" (2013) .

Eisa Jocson is a pole dancer and visual artist from Philippines. Her artistic work merges both backgrounds, investigating notions of gender, body politics, and power relationships. In her practice, sexuality and strenght, voyeurism and restraint, and vulnerability and violation all collide.

Eisa recently took part in Asia platform, curated by Tang Fu Kuen, for the performing arts festival Exodos in Ljubljana.

Trienal de Luanda

Wura-Natasha Ogunji: A Tortoise Walks Majestically on Window Ledges

Occupy Nigeria at Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

Jelili Atiku, "Nigerian Fetish" , performance, 2011

"The week started off with small pockets of unrest and moderate demonstrations that gradually gave way to full-fledged civil resistance throughout the nation. This movement, in consonance with other 'Occupy' protest demonstrations around the world, can be seen in light of a variety of issues that currently plague the nation—foremost among them being the country's stagnant economy, its dilapidated transport, education and health infrastructure, and the ever-present parasitic forms of political and economic corruption.

Within this context, CCA, Lagos initiated an open-ended programme to discursively engage the nation's current state of affairs, the mechanisms underpinning Occupy Nigeria as well as the movement's immediate impact and potential long-term effects. "