COREIA #13 - SANTA DE SUBSTRATO AUTÓNOMO

Inés Sybille Vooduness, João dos Santos Martins

The launch of Coreia’s #13 issue features a presentation by its editor, João dos Santos Martins, followed by the performance Santa de substrato autónomo, by Inés Sybille Vooduness. The Catalan artist of Haitian descent imagines possible encounters with Haitian voodoo deities, seeking to reterritorialize this religion’s syncretic survival strategy.

Santa de substrato autónomo 

Inspired by scenes from the life of martyr Saint Inês, Vooduness sets out to meet Erzulie, loa of love, beauty and maternity, and her multifaceted faces. Can Erzulie be map and mirror, despite the diasporic body’s impossibilities and colourism’s logics? From a dramaturgy impacted by internet language’s stimuli, the friction between Saint Inês and Erzulie and the insistence in Angolan Kuduro’s characteristic moves and Jamaican Dancehall, Vooduness plunges into a state where it is possible to begin a spiritual conversation. 

Coreia is a publication founded in 2019, with an experimental, critical, and discursive character, regarding arts in general, grounded on an umbilical relationship with dance. In semi-annual runs, this publication seeks to be an independent and internationalist forum focused on the discussed produced by artworks and by artists, concerned with sharing various formats as scores, manifestos, interviews, chronicles, essays, criticism and reflexion in Portuguese.

Inés Sybille Voodunesswas born in Barcelona, daughter to a Catalan mother and a Haitian father and currently lives in Lisbon. Between 2018 and 2022, she was part of the Ku'dancin Afrobeatz collective, where she further developed her research on kuduro, a urban style from Angola, and coupé décalé, urban dance and music form the Ivory Coast.