“Bilongo Lila” Theater Performance & Guided Meditation | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A 40-minute live performance-cum-guided meditation takes the audience as the protagonist goes through a vision of the planet 1500 years in the future. Bilongo Lila expands upon Córdova’s five-year video, music, and performance series Echoes of a Tumbling Throne (Odas al fin de los tiempos) premised on a slow ecological decline of earth that results in destruction of historical time and a cultural rebirth for those who remain. Using science-fiction as her model, Córdova is interested in what this future can mean when used to imagine alternative realities for the marginalized: people of color, women, trans and queer folks. Bilongo Lila is concerned with examining white patriarchy and its creature–late technological capitalism–and how both have advanced the conditions evidenced in climate change.

Córdova collaborates with seven musicians and three dancers from Mills MFA programs to create a rendition of the score and movement for music videos included in the work.

Although we can’t find the event on Facebook, the promoter submitted the event for May 27th.

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