–––Kumasi / Roma / Berlino
Last Saturday Va-Bene prepared and installed the poster – the chosen space was an abandoned railway behind PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR, the space for research and artistic residency she runs. Those arriving for the party will pass by the poster. The LOVE fEAST 2022 started in the afternoon until night – the party is an annual dinner to promote hospitality, community networks, human relationships between artists, queer families and local communities. LOVE fEAST marks the celebration of the new year, of rebirth and fierce love. It is a moment open to everyone to eat and drink together, listen to music and dance, sharing stories and meet the artists in residency and knowing their work.
There were the artists joining the residency program and hundreds of people. During the dinner party Va-Bene wrote to us: the poster was vandalized, torn by heavy stones and broken bottles. But we are hundreds of people, all is very powerful. In solidarity Va-Bene invited some colleagues to take pictures with her near the poster.
In these days in Ghana is up for debate a heavy law against LGBTQ+ people, that would further aggravate the situation criminalizing every non-conforming identity. All the communities are active since several months – today Va-Bene’s poster will arrive in Berlin, in front of the Ghanaian embassy to demonstrate.
Accomplices, loving and determined networks activating.