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Afro-Hemispheric Performance
A collection of resources from Afro-Hemispheric Performance: Actions, Socially Public Participations, Rituals, and Ceremonies, a workshop led by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet through the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in August 2020.
Curated by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
Havana, Cuba, 1958. Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, and Fulbright scholar. Ferrera-Balanquet holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.
His artworks have been exhibited at MIX New York, Film Anthology, Nueva York; “Decolonizing The “Cold” War”, BE.BOP 2013 Black Europe Body Politics, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany; Transitio_MX 03, Centro Nacional de las Artes, México D.F.; “Cuba: La Isla Posible”, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain; Centre for Media and Culture in Education, University of Toronto, Canada; Film and Video Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival San Francisco, California.
A member of the Mariel Generation and author of Aestesis Decolonial Transmoderna Latinx_MX (2019); and Imaginarios Creativos y Soberanía Erótica Decolonial (2018). His critical research and literary texts have been published in Australia, Mexico, Italy, Canada, United States, Colombia, Germany, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Ecuador, Romania, Turkey, England, and Dominican Republic.
In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from FONCA (2017), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2017), Prince Claus Foundation, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the NEA/Film in the Cities, and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation.
Readings
The Concepts of Ori and Human Destiny in Traditional Yoruba Thought: A Soft- Deterministic Interpretation
Oladele Abiodun BalogunExternal Link
Afrofuturism 2.0 and The Black Speculative Art Movement - Notes on a Manifesto
Reynaldo AndersonExternal Link
Performance Trace: Staged Actions, Live Art, and Performance Made for the Camera
Yona BackerExternal Link
Women in Masquerade and Performance
Judith BettelheimMalungaje: Toward a Poetics of Diaspora
Jerome C. Branche
Nation and the Cold War: Reflections on the Circuitous Routes of African Diaspora Studies
Lisa Brock
The Fact of Blackness
Frantz Fanon
Introduction: Documenting Blackness at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jason Fox & Mia MaskExternal Link
Figuring Blackness in Modern and Contemporary African Diaspora Visual Cultures
Jacqueline Francis
Poetics of Relation
Edouard Glissant
Exercises For rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy
Guillermo Gomez Peña and Roberto Sinfuente
The Power of the Story
Michael-Rolph Troullot
iss Canadiana Confronts the Mythologies of Nationhood and the im/possibility of African Diasporic Memory in Toronto
Camille TurnerExternal Link