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EYILÁ

José Ramon Hernandez
LECTURE
Sat 23.11.2024 16:00 - 17:00
KVS, Brussels
-2
Past event
23.11.2024
16:00 - 17:00
Past event

In this lecture, José Ramón Hernández will talk about his latest creation Eyilá. 

In this lecture, José Ramón Hernández will talk about his latest creation Eyilá, produced with his platform Osikán-Vivero de Creación in collaboration with Cacao Díaz, Euyin Eugene, Sofía Perdomo, Malvin Starlin Montero, Yohayna Hernández, Ignacio Calderón, Yunieski Gil, and Adriana Reyes, a multicultural team from Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Spain. Eyilá in the Yoruba language means 'fire' and is the twelfth sign of the diloggún (the divination system of the Regla de Osha Ifá). Eyilá is the second episode of the 'Opira' series by Osikán-Vivero de Creación, which began in Havana in 2019 with the piece Okana - AfroRadioactive Ritual and explores Afro-descendant rituals, the mythological and philosophical bodies that sustain them, while questioning the ideas of representation and performativity.

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José Ramón Hernández (Palma Soriano, 1988) is an interdisciplinary Afro-Cuban artist and a graduate of the University of the Arts of Cuba (ISA). He is the founder and artistic director of Osikán-Vivero de Creación and the Afronteriza Residency at the Espacio Afro Cultural Center in Madrid. His work spans artistic direction, dramaturgy, choreography, curation, installation, performance, education, cultural mediation, and management. As a spiritualist, babalocha, and palero, his creative research focuses on Afro-descendant rituals, performativity, peripheral bodies, materials, spirituality, memory, migration, cartography, and desire. He explores the boundaries between fiction and reality, working with non-fictional documents and sensory tools to influence social processes and communities. Hernández has received the 2022 Circuito de las Artes Plásticas Award from the Community of Madrid for his installation Ojú inú yàrá, the Villanueva Critics' Award from the Cuban Artists' Union (UNEAC), and the Aire Frío Award for his work BaqueStriBois in 2016. He also won First Prize at La Fiesta de las Relaciones in 2006 for Maferefún pa Antonia. His work has been presented in Cuba, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Germany, Belgium, the United States, Brazil, and Spain.

TeatroAutor.ES 

Próximamente Festival is collaborating with the Instituto Cervantes and SGAE to feature Latin American artists based in Spain, as part of TeatroAutor.ES program. This initiative, organized by Instituto Cervantes and Fundación SGAE, aims to promote Spanish dramatic authors internationally by fostering artistic exchanges, dialogues, and co-productions between Spanish and foreign theatre professionals. The program supports the mobility of authors and encourages the international visibility of Spanish dramatic works through collaborations with global performing arts entities. 

Presenting the following artists: Jose Ramon Hernandes from Cuba and based in Madrid, Matias Umpierrez from Argentina and based in Madrid and Nicolas Fuentes from Chile and based in Madrid.