Pacific Region: Body as an archive
From a distant voice comes a lament. It is the lament of the black bodies inhabiting the Colombian Pacific coast, who have been forced to travel across paths of displacement and uprooting. Black bodies sustained by the drums that foster a sense of ancestrality, black bodies that rise between rhythms and swaying hips, under the particular mystique of a mourning song that has crossed the ocean and perdured amidst the racist gazes.
These works are the product of a moving question about the memories of the body, where those aggressive gazes are hosted, where the memory of the ones that are gone is housed along with the nostalgia and uncertainty about the future, in this land that cries out for justice.

CORPORAL SCAFFOLD
Danny Suley Castro

AFRO-CULTURE
Sneyder Córdoba

FEET AND A HAT
Julio César Puertocarreño

RHYTHMIC UNIVERSE
Danny Suley Castro
Of the body as heritage in the Colombian Pacific
“My proposal for the module ‘the body as cultural heritage’ is this piece whereby I want to show the process that a black person lives through when facing a racist confrontation”
Author: Ana Lucia Guzmán
Dance, a path of hope
I was inspired by the violence that we live in our territory because of the armed forces and how we can counteract it through dance
Author: Sneijder Córdoba
The body: resilience and resistance of ethnic rights of Afro-Colombian peoples
“I want to represent the ancestral practices of the Colombian Pacific that have been lost as a result of violence.”
Author: Julio Cesar Portocarrero

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