Performances
Jelili Atiku
Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See
Enact 1
Tuesday, May 5, 5:30pm
Hotel Monaco
Sala Vallaresso
Enact 2
Thursday, May 7, 2pm
European Cultural Centre
Marinaressa Gardens
Enact 3
Friday, May 8, 5:30pm
Creative Venice Giudecca
The performance, Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See, features a mystical
figure embodying the earth’s energy, embarking on a ‘Luminous Pilgrimage,’
a deliberate, trance-like journey that weaves through urban landscapes,
integrating Orisha rituals with psychogeography and dérive.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji and ruby onyinyechi amanze
The Dash
Wednesday, May 6, 10am*
Hotel Monaco, Sala Corte
The Dash is a performance of two runners who race in slow motion for exactly one hour.
The performance may be staged within an interior or exterior space: the fixed space of a room;
an open plaza; tight city corridors; or from a start line to the finish.The spectators play an important role in this staged competition.
As vocal timekeepers, they collectively signal the start time, the half-way mark, and crossing of the finish line.Â
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*subject to change
The Dash is a performance of two runners who race in slow motion for exactly one hour.The performance may be staged within an interior or exterior space: the fixed space of a room;an open plaza; tight city corridors; or from a start line to the finish.The spectators play an important role in this staged competition. As vocal timekeepers, they collectively signal the start time, the half-way mark, and crossing of the finish line.Â
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*subject to change
Zora Snake, Maddly Mendy Sylva, and Wilfred Naked
L’Opéra du Villageois
Wednesday, May 6, 11:30am*
Hotel Monaco, Sala Corte
In L’Opéra du villageois, Zora Snake stages a dialogue between living bodies and museum-held works of art,
situated at the crossroads of imaginaries. The performance reconsiders the relationship between museums
and the objects they house, engaging ongoing debates surrounding restitution, damage, memory, repair, and return.
*subject to change
In L’Opéra du villageois, Zora Snake stages a dialogue between living bodies and museum-held works of art, situated at the crossroads of imaginaries. The performance reconsiders the relationship between museumsand the objects they house, engaging ongoing debates surrounding restitution, damage, memory, repair, and return.
*subject to change
Tsedaye Makonnen and Jermay Michael Gabriel
Waves of Ash
Thursday, May 7, 4:30PM*
European Cultural Centre Giardini Marinaressa
This performance links Tsedaye Makonnen’s and Jermay Michael Gabriel’s artistic
practices, migration, the archive of memory, and the deviation of Western epistemology.
Their work takes the form of an installation composed of burned wood and textiles.
*subject to change
This performance links Tsedaye Makonnen’s and Jermay Michael Gabriel’s artisticpractices, migration, the archive of memory, and the deviation of Western epistemology. Their work takes the form of an installation composed of burned wood and textiles.
Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Untitled: Flaggings IN MEMORIAM in the BLUES on some CUES and when WAX ain’t so LOST (a sketchy score for some processional gestures and an eventual celebratory discussion)
Saturday, May 9, 12pm
European Cultural Centre Giardini Marinaressa
The work unfolds as a series of performative interventions manifest as processional gestures,
fictive liturgical invocations, leading eventually to a day of collective re-membering (a gathering).
These actions hinge tangentially on observations made from the contemporary public sphere,
but are also somehow inspired by visual, textual, and gestural vocabularies culled from a variety of sources.
The work unfolds as a series of performative interventions manifest as processional gestures, fictive liturgical invocations, leading eventually to a day of collective re-membering (a gathering). These actions hinge tangentially on observations made from the contemporary public sphere, but are also somehow inspired by visual, textual, and gestural vocabularies culled from a variety of sources.
Additional performances for Fall 2026,
including by Va-Bene Fiatsi, planned.
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