Gesture
Gestuário
©Bruno Simões / Bo.CA
The place of pain to heal wounds is frequently an improbable one. But to move past the pain is the utopian way to get to the other side. Who can listen? Who can shout? What is there to notice? Who won’t last? What is left to dream?
Zia Soares
The Institute of Black Women in Portugal – INMUNE answers to BoCA’s invitation to create a spoken word performance around the themes that involve the creation of this intersectional and anti-racist feminist entity, made up entirely of black women. This performance, “Gestuário II” leads intact in the fight against the silencing of black women, African and afro-descendant in past and today’s History.
INMUNE promotes the empowerment, the social and political participation of women, equal rights, parity and social justice, fostering through their activities and actions a welcoming environment to the affirmation and valorization of black and African culture and heritage in Portugal.
©Bruno Simões / Bo.CA
Directed by Zia Soares
Performed by Alesa Herero, Denise Viana, Raquel Lima, Sandra Costa
Texts by Raquel Lima, Zia Soares
Translation into Kriol by Sandra Costa
Costumes and props by Neusa Trovoada, Zia Soares
Graphic design Neusa Trovoada
Co-produced by INMUNE, BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts