Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

A choreographic installation by Álvaro Restrepo for Compañía Cuerpo de Indias (eCdC). A homage to writers Álvaro Mutis and Gabriel García Márquez, based in the short story El último Rostro by Mutis and the novel El General en su Laberinto by Gabo. An scenic meditation about the loneliness of power, treason, ingratitude, the body ravaged by illness and the deadly disenchatment of the Libertador regarding his failed dream about the great Latin American nation.

In the last decade, Latin America has shown itself to be a region that leads in terms of racial justice and the fight against racism, with a wave of collective actions. We talk about them and their territorial characteristics with Bocafloja (Mexico), an interdisciplinary artist and curator who, in his work, tackles themes such as critical race theory, the Global South, coloniality and the African diaspora in Latin America; Tanya Hernández (United States), a specialist in comparative racial relations and anti-discrimination law, and author of Inocencia racial: desenmascarando la antinegritud de los latinos y la lucha por la igualdad; and Maricruz Rivera Clemente, founder of Corporación Piñones se Integra COPI and co-founder of Corredor Afro in Piñones in northern Puerto Rico, and activist against the discrimination of the Afro-descendent population. In conversation with Agustín Laó-Montes.