Performances
Bernard Akoi-Jackson in the stead of Jelili Atiku
Openings and meanderings: supplications for more accessible futures.
Tuesday, May 5, 5:30pm
Hotel Monaco, Sala Vallaresso
Bernard Akoi-Jackson’s Openings and meanderings: supplications for more accessible futures is presented in the stead of Jelili Atiku’s 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. This immersive experience invites the audience to embody their true selves, confront societal expectations, and tap into the magic within and around them. Through this ritualistic dérive, participants are encouraged to surrender to the city’s rhythms, sensing the emotional resonance of spaces, and allowing the environment to shape their inner landscapes. The performance promotes self-discovery, transformation, and profound connection, addressing cultural identity fragmentation, reclamation, and restitution.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji and ruby onyinyechi amanze
The Dash
Hotel Monaco, Sala Corte
Wednesday, May 6, 10am
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.
Zora Snake and Wilfried Nakeu
Escape the Boxes
Wednesday, May 6, 11:45am
Hotel Monaco, Sala Corte
In Escape the Boxes, Zora Snake and Wilfried Nakeu draw on the subversive narrative of 1922 Revisited to propose a performative trio involving a visual artist, a choreographer, and audience participation within a transformed space, where silence awakens the stories obscured by the hierarchical display of artworks. The performative act reimagines a reclaiming of original memories that have been stripped of their authentic function. For the artists this becomes a way to recontextualize the sacredness of works connected to the living, in relation to perspectives of repair and healing from the “fragments of history.”
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian
Kayeyei: Archive embodied
Thursday, May 7, 2:30pm
European Cultural Centre
Giardini Marinaressaa
Kayeyei: Archive embodied is a durational performance in which bodies become living repositories of history, labor, and global circulation. Performers continuously layer secondhand garments onto themselves, inspecting, tagging, and wearing each piece as if cataloguing an archive. As the layers accumulate, movement becomes restricted, identities obscured, and the body strained under the weight of material histories embedded in the clothes.
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.
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.
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2026
Jelili Atiku
Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See
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.
Additional performances for Fall 2026,
including by Va-Bene Fiatsi, planned.
285 Fulton Street
New York, NY 10007
(212) 404-0361
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