escuchando contextos - afro-caribbean music

In this meeting, based on listening dynamics and viewing archival images, we will reflect on the contexts of creation of musical genres born in Caribbean territories. We will generate dialogues on globalization, the African diaspora, forms of resistance, and the cultural and social legacy of the Caribbean. Arelis Benítez Rosario and Patri Vizcaino Villalón will guide us through this approach via music, history, and specific experiences through an expanded dialogue.

This meeting is part of the research project Influencias Negras y Caribeñas en la globalización (Black and Caribbean influences on globalization). It explores how aesthetics and sounds of Black and Caribbean origin shape the artistic landscape of the Global North.

Inspired by “Todo afecta a todo” (everything affects everything), it examines the interrelationship between the visual and the auditory, and how cultural appropriation disseminates and obscures its roots. With a transdisciplinary approach, through research, experimentation, and collective creation, it proposes a dialogue for more just and inclusive cultural practices.

bios

Patri Vizcaino Villalón is an illustrator, technician, and audiovisual artist who likes to fuse media to explore reflections. Her audiovisuals, plastic art, and writings address indefiniteness, fluctuating identity, the conglomeration of roots, the journey of gender, the dialogue between the individual and the collective, and how all of this affects and shapes us. She loves dance, an element she incorporates into her live A/V shows and visual pieces.

Arelis Benítez is a Dominican flutist, musicologist, and cultural manager. She has trained in arts education, flute, and musicology at institutions in the Dominican Republic, Valencia, and Barcelona. She is currently working on several residencies and research projects related to music and is developing the @caribbeancultureRD project, where she researches and creates content on Caribbean culture, exploring identity and memory through music and its contexts.

This project has been accompanied by Ingrid Blanco during its development.

This event is part of the research project “Influencias Negras y Caribeñas en la globalización: Diálogo visual y sonoro” by Arelis Benítez Rosario and Patri Vizcaino Villalón, supported by one of the Becas de investigación artística Barcelona CREA – La Escocesa 2025.

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