Launch of Coletivo Afrontosas
- 20.04 2023
- Open Studio
- Espaço Alkantara
- Free entry upon e-mail confirmation : afrontosas.pt@gmail.com
- 18H30
Espaço Alkantara hosts the launch of Coletivo Afrontosas at 6.30pm on 20 April
Programme:
Talk
With DIDI, antonyo omolu, ROD and guests.
Performance
Iabás by antonyo omolu
This performance evokes dance, gestures and the energy of female Orixás. Earth, air and water represented in a queer body. A commemorative dance of blessing and celebration.
Gathering
With a DJ set by DIDI
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.
As part of the world’s decolonisation process, we introduce ourselves as the impossible dreams of our ancestrality. We imagine ourselves as ancestral escapes. Through exchange we continue creating new forms of "acuírlombamento" (Black, queer reinvention) and new strategies for facing and escaping the cis-hegemonic structures that still operate over thought, bodies and ways of life.
Coletivo Afrontosas
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...
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...
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...
