Dan Ayido-Huedo 

In the framework of of the INVOCATIONS for MAGICAL HACKERISM, we cordially invite you to participate in the ritual performance Dan Ayido-Huedo by Ana Beatriz Almeida. 

Dan Ayido-Huedo is a ritual performance connected to the snake vodoun of transformation and prosperity, therefore it is divided in three moments: the red, the black and the white moment. The intention is to think about the consequences of racism and colonialism from a non hegemonic perspective by the African Diasporic logics developed in Brazil. Therefore, like it is in African Brazilian culture, Yoruba and Ewe logic systems are applied together. The intention is understanding the ancestral dimension of colonialism in the realm of love and affection.

The ritual is divided in three parts, the red and first is dedicated to look at the present and identify the current love patterns that are connected to colonialism to understand them as self-agreement and to acknowledge them. The second and black part is dedicated to transforming these agreements. The last and the third part is the white moment, in which the participants are invited to move in the space with their current agreements but moving toward the past in order to upgrade our ancestral memories. 

Ana Beatriz Almeida lives and works between London, Salvador de Bahia and São Paulo. She is a PhD student in Museum Studies at Leicester University. Her field of research is African and African Diaspora non-hegemonic logics as institutional policy. She is currently curatorial consultant at MAC Niteroi. She is also the founder of the 01.01 Art Platform, a non-profit institution that promotes more sustainable experiences of collecting and interacting with art from Africa and African Diaspora. The first institution in Brazil built by African Brazilian artists and curators to represent only African and African Diaspora contemporary artists.