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suzybellwriter · 5 years

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It was truly a heartfelt experience filming and witnessing the deeply melancholy yet spiritually empowering and uplifting dance and music ritual of African diaspora performance artist @atadjalewa who radically transformed himself, as is tradition in Haiti for Karnaval, using black & white body paint and burning the equivalent of Africa’s sacred incense /herb, impepho, as a call to the ancestors to invoke a trance and allow the ancestors witness what has happened and is happening to the Haitian community in Miami and to symbolically reclaim the stolen land. 2 artists, @atadjalewa from #Guadeloupe and @henritauliaut an amazing Afro-punk and bio-art performance artist from #Martinique and the RaRa band are reclaiming historical land in this site-specific space, the Miami Design District, which is now sadly, mostly an inane, useless, consumerism mass of ugly, luxury designer fashion stores, whereas before it was a rich, spiritual, community, a beloved home of many Haitians. Miami’s tragic gentrification creep further threatens displacement of Haitians living in Miami’s Little Haiti. This performance is a very poignant RaRa Karnaval / Raranaval, a collective Street performance that typically marks the end of Haiti’s Karnaval and this collaboration was curated by the @fountainheadresidency artist @giscard_bouchotte that took place from Buena Vista to the Miami Design District during the recent #toutmondefestival2019 ~ a deeply engaging and much needed #Caribbeanartsfestival which was beautifully and sensitively curated by the visionary #vanessaselk of the @frenchculturemiami ~ *footnote ~ impepho has a powerful cleansing energy and is used similarly like sage was used by the Native American cultures and the ancient Chumash as spiritual cleansing and healing, to smudge and cleanse the air. #rarakarnaval #karnaval #raranaval #caribbeanartist #haiti #littlehaiti #africandiaspora #caribbeanartsfestival #atadjalewa #giscardbouchotte #miamiperformanceart #ritual #art #reclamation #designdestrictmiami #gentrificationsucks #displacement #dance #stolenland #stolenspaces #frenchculturemiami @frenchartsassociates #suzybell #femaleartist #shortfilm #videoart (at Miami Design District) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzUMpwBxvL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nfkc8gw6202c

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suzybellwriter · 5 years

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It was truly a heartfelt experience filming and witnessing the deeply melancholy yet spiritually empowering and uplifting dance and music ritual of African diaspora performance artist @atadjalewa who radically transformed himself, as is tradition in Haiti for Karnaval, using black & white body paint and burning the equivalent of Africa’s sacred incense /herb, impepho, as a call to the ancestors to invoke a trance and allow the ancestors witness what has happened and is happening to the Haitian community in Miami and to symbolically reclaim the stolen land. Here two artists, @atadjalewa from #Guadeloupe and @henritauliaut an amazing Afro-punk and bio-art performance artist from #Martinique and the RaRa band are reclaiming historical land in this site-specific space, the Miami Design District, which is now sadly, mostly an inane, useless, consumerism mass of ugly, luxury designer fashion stores, whereas before it was a rich, spiritual, community, a beloved home of many Haitians. Miami’s tragic gentrification creep further threatens displacement of Haitians living in Miami’s Little Haiti. This performance is a very poignant RaRa Karnaval / Raranaval, a collective Street performance that typically marks the end of Haiti’s Karnaval and this collaboration was curated by the @fountainheadresidency artist @giscard_bouchotte that took place from Buena Vista to the Miami Design District during the recent #toutmondefestival2019 ~ a deeply engaging and much needed #Caribbeanartsfestival which was beautifully and sensitively curated by the visionary #vanessaselk of the @frenchculturemiami ~ *footnote ~ impepho has a powerful cleansing energy and is used similarly like sage was used by the Native American cultures and the ancient Chumash as spiritual cleansing and healing, to smudge and cleanse the air. #rarakarnaval #karnaval #raranaval #caribbeanartist #haiti #littlehaiti #africandiaspora #caribbeanartsfestival #atadjalewa #giscardbouchotte #miamiperformanceart #ritual #art #reclamation #designdestrictmiami #gentrificationsucks #displacement #dance #stolenland #stolenspaces #frenchculturemiami @frenchartsassociates #suzybell #femaleartist #shortfilm #videoart (at Miami Design District) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzT1Gch3n5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1puefj8au0k1l

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suzybellwriter · 5 years

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It was truly a heartfelt experience filming and witnessing the deeply melancholy yet spiritually empowering and uplifting dance and music ritual of African diaspora performance artist @atadjalewa who radically transformed himself, as is tradition in Haiti for Karnaval, using black & white body paint and burning the equivalent of Africa’s sacred incense /herb, impepho, as a call to the ancestors to invoke a trance and allow the ancestors witness what has happened and is happening to the Haitian community in Miami and to symbolically reclaim the stolen land. Here two artists, @atadjalewa from #Guadeloupe and @henritauliaut an amazing Afro-punk and bio-art performance artist from #Martinique and the RaRa band are reclaiming historical land in this site-specific space, the Miami Design District, which is now sadly, mostly an inane, useless, consumerism mass of ugly, luxury designer fashion stores, whereas before it was a rich, spiritual, community, a beloved home of many Haitians. Miami’s tragic gentrification creep further threatens displacement of Haitians living in Miami’s Little Haiti. This performance is a very poignant RaRa Karnaval / Raranaval, a collective Street performance that typically marks the end of Haiti’s Karnaval and this collaboration was curated by the @fountainheadresidency artist @giscard_bouchotte that took place from Buena Vista to the Miami Design District during the recent #toutmondefestival2019 ~ a deeply engaging and much needed #Caribbeanartsfestival which was beautifully and sensitively curated by the visionary #vanessaselk of the @frenchculturemiami ~ *footnote ~ impepho has a powerful cleansing energy and is used similarly like sage was used by the Native American cultures and the ancient Chumash as spiritual cleansing and healing, to smudge and cleanse the air. #rarakarnaval #karnaval #raranaval #caribbeanartist #haiti #littlehaiti #africandiaspora #caribbeanartsfestival #atadjalewa #giscardbouchotte #miamiperformanceart #ritual #art #reclamation #designdestrictmiami #gentrificationsucks #displacement #dance #stolenland #stolenspaces #frenchculturemiami @frenchartsassociates #suzybell #femaleartist #shortfilm #videoart (at Miami Design District) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzHe97Bn3H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1doo0qxz0mxfp

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