Beauty is not a luxury, rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical act of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity for the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (excerpt in New Yorker)
escrevivência concept by Conceição Evaristo–It is a combination of “writing”, “living” and “seeing”, which, in addition to the word game, represents a conception derived from a black epistemology (ancestralidades)
Sounds similar to Landó by Victoria Santa Cruz–During the Afro-Peruvian revival, she re-created one of the most important dances that has lived on as a standard in terms of the genres that have come to embody and represent Peru’s African heritage, the landó. Victoria, according to what she told me, re-created the landó by remembering it with her body. Ancestral memory. (afropop)
