THE MEMORY OF FRUIT. Claudia Claremi
(AFTERNOON ACTIVITY WITH PRE-REGISTRATION STARTING 15 MAY)
This is a tour around the fruit stands of Móstoles through a sound cartography of La memoria de las frutas [The Memory of Fruit], a project that has looked into Caribbean fruit since 2015 via the web of affects surrounding them.
On the way to the CA2M Museum, with stops and visual interventions at different fruit stands, the experience will be guided by a series of voices from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islander diaspora who will share memories and reflections on fruit, the land, migration and the quest for flavour. These stories will be accompanied by musical tunes related to fruit.
Claudia Claremi (Madrid, 1986). An artist and filmmaker, she graduated with a degree in Documentary Cinema from the Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London (United Kingdom). She has been a resident at Beta Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2015), the Centro de Residencias Matadero Madrid (2021), the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY (2023) and The Clemente in New York (2023). The grants and awards she has won include Generaciones from the Fundación Montemadrid (2021), Circuitos de Artes Plásticas (2021) and the NOEXPO programme from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
PHOTO Claudia Claremi, La Memoria de las Frutas (2023). Image courtesy of the artist.
Instagram: @claudiaclaremi
ORUN SECO - OPENING. Yunieski Gil, Ignacio Calderón and Osikán – creation incubator
The Orun Seco is a sacred sequence played with batá drums to open a wemilere (festival) in Santería. Orun Seco is heard directly by Orishas, heralds the start of the festive ceremony and blesses it with the spiritual and percussive power of the leather drumheads.
Yunieski Gil. He is a percussionist who graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte of Cuba. He has played with different musical groups that accompany Afro-Cuban folklore dances, including Sarabanda Ngo, Lucero Cuatro Nsila, the Stild Band of Havana and Yibi Son. He has been a member of the AfroResistences research team at Osikán - Creation Incubator since 2023.
Ignacio Calderón. He is a percussionist with 20 years of international professional experience. He is the former music director of the Afrocuba folklore group of Matanzas and has played with artists like Chucho Valdés and Kervin Barreto (Calle 13). He is an expert in Afro-Cuban, Latin and Afro-Caribbean beats and fusion music (jazz, flamenco, electronic and world music). He is a Latin and Afro-Cuban percussion instructor (United Kingdom, US, Spain, Mexico) and has been a member of the AfroResistences research team at Osikán - Creation Incubator since 2023.
Osikán is an incubator of creation, investigation and action in which artists, experts, activists and communities coexist, fostering critical dialogues and repairing social wounds in our living and working places. Osikán’s origin and most visible track record is in Cuba, within a context of artists working critically on the margins and peripheries of cultural institutions. Today in Madrid, Osikán – Creation Incubator is expanding within a web of alliances with Afro communities, migrants, trans people, racialised people and Afro-Caribbean, indigenous, Afro-descent and Abya Yala diasporas, in connection with other alternative networks of creation and national and international professional circuits.
PHOTO La Casa Encendida/ Estudio Perplejo
Instagram: @osikan_vivero_de_creacion
CONUCO PLATABANDA. Sofía Perdomo and Euyín Eugene
Conuco platabanda is a performative dream in which two diasporic bodies intersect. It is an exchange of sensory archives. One nostalgia that talks with another. A tangle which weaves Barlovento, Petare and Madrid together.
Sofía Perdomo Sanz (Caracas, 1995). A migrant, self-managed creator and Caribbean-centred artist of the poetic and the political, she works with what she has and makes this an artistic stance: we do not require anything other than what we already have to express the story we need to tell. She explores using writing, visual art and performance. The recurring themes in her works are memory, the syncretism of Afro-diasporic identities, migration and healing as an essential quest and urge.
Euyín Eugene is a trans man born in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. He is a visual and stage creator. His work revolves around processes which blend embodied experience and political and social events that condition that experience. The topics he addresses include power relations, migration, gender and historical memory.
PHOTO Euyín Eugene, courtesy of the artist
Instagram: Sofía Perdomo Sanz: @todasvuelven @perrraverde Euyín Eugene: @hanacidoeugene
AFROSIDERAL LIVE. Kumar Sublevao-Beat alias Afrosideral, Areil Bringuez and Alan Sousa
Afrosideral presents his trio at the CA2M Museum along with the Cuban multi-instrumentalist Ariel Bringuez on sax, keyboard and percussion, and the Brazilian percussionist Alan Sousa. The ancestral songs dedicated to the Orishas and African ancestors are wrapped in contemporary and electronic music, making the concert a ceremony for your body, soul and mind.
Kumar Sublevao-Beat alias Afrosideral. He is a Cuban rapper, music producer and multi-instrumentalist living in Spain. His versatility ranges between hip-hop, jazz, world music and electronic music, all under the mantle of Afro-Cuban music. With a dynamic, mystical and elegant stage show, he goes from downtempo to the most danceable music without losing his authenticity.
PHOTO agnieszkacytacka.fotografia
Instagram: @afrosideral
Facebook: @afroaideral
YouTube: @afrosideral
Website: sublevaobeat.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6gwlTwJNBRJ8l8phOAQCEI?si=k3MkCFAlSYqNYU6OaMNoVQ