This project will take place in Nicaragua and Indonesia, and the collaboration will result in a performance piece that reexamines a cockfighting ritual. We will also research the political and cultural implications of this tradition and the possible transoceanic species and cosmovision exchanges that occurred between South Asia and the Global South prior to the Spanish and Dutch colonisation of our respective territories. Using the colonisation process as a starting point, we would like to move forward from colonial wounds by rethinking history and creating space for the birth of new ways of queer existence that are anchored in our ancestral knowledge.
Elyla (Nicaragua) is a performance artist and activist from Chontales.
Otniel Tasman (Indonesia) is a choreographer whose artistic practice is deeply rooted in Javanese traditions, especially those of his hometown Banyumas.
