Trampa de luces (Trick of the Light)

Trampa de luces (Trick of the Light)

Orne Cabrita wonders what would happen if she opted for illegibility as a place of enunciation? Khosravi says that one should strive to show rather than tell. Orne Cabrita proposes an imperfect archive fed by subjective artefacts that doesn’t come to talk about but to talk to, an unstable archive that rescues essays, poems, WhatsApp conversations, emails, memes, etc. Clues of intersubjectivity as a migratory practice. The possibility of this accumulating street and saltpetre becomes speculative portals capable of inferring other worlds. Playing with orality as a technology of contagion and opacity as an unyielding commitment to the expiry of a trans-Caribbean experience.

Orne Cabrita

A juggler of words, speculator of gentler futures. Her writings have been published in El Salto diario, 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 collaborated on the publication Yo en cursiva / Imaginarios para la desobediencia (Ediciones Catinga, 2020). She has participated in roundtable discussions with Hamaca (Arts Santa Mònica, 2023) and in Oda Butch Days (La Escocesa, 2024), among others.