BLACK PERFORMATIVITIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF YORUBÁ ART:

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN GÈLÈDÉ, OLOJÓ FESTIVAL AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS

Abstract

This research was developed to think about the aesthetic connections between Yorubaland and Brazil from the shows Gèlèdé, the Olojó Festival in Africa and the Afro-Amerindian cultural manifestations, focusing on issues that involve materialities, relationships with natural, historical and social events. , associated with a peculiar thought about the conceptions of the sacred, listed as foundations of the constitutive processes of such events, which reflect experiences and cosmo perceptions that formulate the subjectivities of a people descendant of Africa, verified in the activities of the communities from which they originate, as well as their apprentices. Associated with the rebellious and playful mystique of Exu, the diasporic manifestations refer to new possibilities of ordering a reality now marked by colonial processes. These, represented through laughter, promote in their comics the possibility of ways of living, through a critical perception of reality, becoming a primeval element of a devotional and propositional aesthetics of new and reformulated views on life.