Afrontosas
Montação
- 25.11 2023
- Garagem Culturgest
- No ticket required
- 23H - 4H
- ages 18+
An LGBTQIAP+ celebration of the manifestations of queer, black (re)existence in the diaspora.
We could describe montação as the art of making something beautiful – original, with a lot of light, shine and movement – out of nothing.
For the underground parking at Culturgest, the Afrontosas Collective prepares an homage to the many ways older and newer Black LGBTQIAP+ movements party.
This collective dream comes from a need to celebrate feelings, cultures, and existence through art. It is a way of resignifying the queer party scene that the collective has always been a part of – from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, with stops in Cape Verde, Guiné, and other afrodiasporic distances.
Afrontosas Collective
Coletivo Afrontosas is a Cultural Association born from meetings between Black, queer people linked to the world of arts, education and celebration. Its emergence was motivated by the absence of projects reflecting on the importance of queer Blackness in the diaspora in Portugal, in confluence with migratory exchanges from Latin America, Africa and other regions.
The collective aims to be active in five areas: Art and Research; Hospitality and Ancestrality; Consulting and Teaching; Culture and Celebration; and Lifestyle and Fashion Design.
One of Afrontosa’s objectives is to support, promote and publicise artistic and educational production by Black, queer artists, with the aim of creating intersectional spaces for debate and discussion between cultural agents nationally and internationally.
Content notes
This event features strobes, vertigo-inducing lighting and smoke machines.
Di Candido, aka DIDI, is a transdisciplinary artist whose work integrates research and artistic-cultural production, curating, art-performance, and DJing. With a law degree from Universidade Candido Mendes and a master's in Communication, Culture, and Technology from ISCTE – IUL, their journey addresses themes such as (re)territorialization, cyberculture, ecology and queer mythologies, identities, and anti-racist activism, focusing on queer, Black, and migrant communities in the diaspora. They co-founded UNA – União Negra das Artes, the Afrontosas Collective, and...
tony omolu, Black and non-binary artist, has started a PhD in Artistic Education at the University of Lisbon. They hold a Master's in Arts, where they conducted research on the dramaturgy of the Orixás dance of Master Augusto Omolu, at UFU/MG. They have a postgraduate degree in Theatrical Interpretation from UFU/MG and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from UFU/MG. They are a professor and Artistic Director of the Extension and Culture Programme – Corpoencena (performing arts) and have training and aesthetic experience in artistic-cultural and pedagogical production...
ROD is a researcher and visual artist, Black and queer. They hold a postdoctoral degree from CECS at the University of Minho and a PhD in Sociology from ICS at the University of Lisbon. As a visual artist, they develop work focused on decolonial critique. They have participated in several group exhibitions and solo displays, such as the Lisbon Graphic Fair (2020), Casa do Capitão (2021), Espaço Damas (2021), Bairro em Festa Festival at Largo Residências (2021), Not a Museum Gallery (2021), MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (2022), Lisbon Municipal...