performance w/ Tiffani Achilleas, Danny Hayoun, Bárbara Lázara, Janeth Tapasco, Lula Rios, Kuyayky, St. James Valsin, Diego Garnica, and Ivan Txaparro (2023)
[Photograph Courtesy of Pamela Molina]
nombres, pregonera – Bárbara Lázara, video still from "Scope BLN Archive" (2023)
Numa is a community-based aural experience that transmits oral histories, knowledge, and sentiments via sound and movement. Numa is a polyrhythmic, syncopated, polyvocal, and multilingual account of historical trauma. It seeks to center historically marginalized voices to weave them into the ever-growing constellations of narratives, paving the way for emancipatory radical futures while constantly reminding us that healing flourishes in the collective.
At its essence, Numa is an exercise in historical Memory and a form of Afro/indigenous sonic mapping that explores the transformation of some musical traditions developed in Colombia (Vallenato, Bullerengue, and Pasillo), uplifting narratives of musicians forced to live in exile and tracing moments of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, transmuting them into a celebration of life and a blueprint of resistance. Numa also foretells the cyclical nature of violence in places without Memory and poses unforgetting as an attitude against this repetition.
la tercera resignación (2023), color inkjet print
Tiffani Achilleas w/ quijada (2023)
Reise auf dem Río Magdalena (2023) , equine molar no. 311 with 0.8 gm of 18k gold
[made in collaboration with Daniel Rivas]
yo di chante sa a kòmanse an silans
yo di chante sa a kòmanse an silans
e si se konsa
kite starling la pwoteje chante ou a
epi
menm si w ale vwa w ap sonnen nan jaden an
menm si ou fennen tankou yon pòtrè
wi
menm si w ale kounye a,
zwazo sa yo pral kriye avè m
en 'mitarra vo'a para'
no quiero
no quiero
no quiero irme d’ acá
persiguiendo el gurre
Y esmeralda pa’ llorar
no quiero
no quiero
no quiero irme pa’llá
río sin orillas
en ‘mitarra vo’ a para’
Berlin poster for Numa: Susurros de una mandíbula rota // Geflüster von einem gebrochenen Kiefer // Whispers from a Broken Jaw (2023)
Project Collaborators:
Tiffani Achilleas @tiffani_achilleas — dance performance/choreography
Danny Hayoun @dannyhayoun — composition/production
Bárbara Lázara @gritenme_piedras — voice
Janeth Tapasco @janetaga1139 — voice/food
St. James Valsin @stjamesvalsin — voice
Lula Rios @lulariosworld — voice
Kuyayky @kuyaykyfnd — voice
Ivan Txaparro @ivan.txaparro — traverso flute
Diego Garnica @iodisain — percussion (tambor alegre)/muscial guest
KT @thesearecollages — communications/songbook design
Juan Nuñez @juan.nnz — logistics
Daniel Rivas @elreinventor — goldsmith
Aranza Bastien @aranza.bastien — choreography
Paola Peña @pavarolaa — choreography
Natalia Ivanova @andnat— newsletter text
Pamela Molina @pamolinafdz — photography