Un solo de boca (‘A mouth solo’). A workshop with Orne Cabrita
In 1977, when guitarist Yomo Toro failed to show up to record his four-person guitar solo for the song ‘Buscando Guayaba’, Rubén Blades improvised an historic mouth solo, which he then had to perform at every concert on the Siembra tour. The ability to improvise and know how to dance a few incidental steps is not only a necessary skill for travelling through the Caribbean, but also for narrating it.
This workshop navigates through the flashes of dizzying orality, beginning with Brathwaite’s drum poems and moving on to the hyperlyricism of salsa and various visual manifestations of everlasting reverberation. Drawing on findings from the Hamaca archive, social media and personal archives, we will create a collective, rhizomatic syllabus exploring rhythm as a methodology of resistance and contagion.
Target audience: The workshop is aimed at artists wishing to explore the sound and cadence of Caribbean storytelling and its ability not only to accompany images, but also to evoke and preserve images. Priority will be given to artists from the diaspora and migrants from the Global South.
Date and time: 29 September and 1 October from 5 pm to 8 pm
Place: La Capella (c/ Hospital 56, Barcelona)
Price: free with prior enrolment
→ ENROLMENTS: send an email to lacapella@bcn.cat
Orne Cabrita (Caracas, Venezuela). A juggler of words and speculator of kinder futures, her writings have been published in El Salto (newspaper), ViceVersa and Panfleto Negro. She participated in the Despentes Convergence festival (2017) with a text commissioned by Virginie Despentes. Under the curatorship of Johan Mijail, she contributed to the publication Yo en cursiva / Imaginarios para la desobediencia (Ediciones Catinga, 2020). Her text De sal en la lengua was recently selected for the OCEAN/UNI: bárawa programme, a digital initiative of the TBA21–Academy. She has participated in discussions at Hamaca (Arts Santa Mònica, 2023) and the Oda Butch seminar (La Escocesa, 2024), among others. She is currently developing the publication project Trampa de luces as part of Barcelona Producció 2025 at the Centre d’Art La Capella.
The workshop is part of the collaboration between Hamaca and La Capella within the Concèntric programme.
