Another Treaty of Paris

2018

Performatic conference

This piece stages the dream of young Yanelys Nuñez Leyva and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: to see their nation reconciled. The project combines sound performance and participation between the Center Pompidou and social media. “A year after the death of Fidel Castro, the maximum leader of the Cuban Revolution appeared to me in a dream to tell me that in his final days he had secretly written a will. That night he confident me with the mission to go to the place where he was hiding. He predicted that he would make it public at a significant international fair and that despite the many obstacles that would stand in the way, the presentation at the end would perform. He gave me instructions on how the whole process had to be: I had to be preferably through a digital medium, because of how massive it needed to be; and that he had to invite all Cubans to listen to his final words. Residents and non residents, those who loved him and those who hated him. For this reason, he trusted me this mission, because according to him, I was an ordinary Cuban who had a sense of the historical moment, I was far from all extremist hatred and wanted a prosperous future for Cuba”

The project has been co-commissioned and co-produced by Hors Pistes (Center Pompidou) and Elegoa Cultural Productions. To carry it out, Catherine Sicot (Elegoa Cultural Productions) also benefits from the support of Michael Dan et Amira Bojadzija-Dan and the Programme Nouveau Chapitre (Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Advisor of the Arts of Canada) within the framework of the Facing project: the stories of others- an exploration of nation(s) from the outside-in (Glances: the stories of others – an exploration of the nation(s)).