Where Are the Secret Messages from Our Ancestors?

Colectivo Ayllu is an artistic-political collective founded by migrants, people of color, and queer and gender-sexual dissidents from former Spanish colonies. Through their work, the group critiques white supremacy and the European colonial heteronormative ideology. The Latin American artists and researchers of the collective combine anti-racist and decolonial perspectives, creating actions that merge text and artistic practice.

Their work serves as a safe space for migrant bodies and sexual dissidents who challenge and dismantle conventional codes of gender, sexuality, and race. The collective, described as a "chosen family" founded in 2017, represents a diverse array of territories and contexts from Abya Yala, the indigenous name for the Americas.

We will become familiar with them and their work through two of their members, Lucrecia Masson and Francisco Godoy Vega. Join Colectivo Ayllu for their performance on 13 February at 19:00 (!) and for the artist talk on 14 February at 10:00, where they not only bring compelling artistic perspectives to the stage but also ignite critical discussions on racism, migration, and sexual diversity.

Abstract:
We propose a journey back and forth through the cosmographies of winds and waters. To uncover these messages within and beyond our bodies is to step into ancestral time, to immerse ourselves in its spiral. This performance is a poetic and spatial intervention—a gesture of love for our departed, for the lands and the seas, all of whom have been deeply wounded by Western modernity. In this act, we embrace them.