Invocations | A programme of spells, incantations and oracles | MACBA | 2024

For this second iteration of Invocations, we will celebrate the summer solstice with a programme of performance, music and live arts exploring the potential of ritual as a catalyst for transformative experiences.
With her Brindis animista (Animistic Offering), the Puerto Rican artist Chaveli Sifre will create a healing space inside the crypt of the Convent dels Àngels through a ritual offering of seawater and ashes from the bonfires of San Juan. MACBA’s Chapel becomes a stage for resignifications through performance. From the body poetics of Seba Calfuqueo, whose work questions gender binarism through indigenous cosmologies, to a collective card reading session by Gelen Jeleton, through the unpredictable metamorphoses of the choreographer María Jérez, and a special session of MACBA’s Kitchen, in which Llorenç Barber and Marina Monsonís will revisit the sounds and flavours of popular neighbourhoods in danger of disappearing. The programme ends with sonic interventions by Maria W Horn, who will superimpose onto the venue of Convent dels Ángels the acoustics of another architecture of confinement - that of the prison panopticon; and a new live show by Hibotep, a DJ, rapper and artist brought up in Kampala’s underground scene who will present a session of ‘industrial shamanism’ at the museum.
Curated by Sabel Gavaldon, Head of Live Programmes at MACBA and Alicia Escobio, curator or Live Programmes.
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