JUSTIN RANDOLPH THOMPSON & ERNES AMORES GUERRA

Tickets

You can access this event with the following tickets:

• June Pass → buy here 

• June 6 Ticket → available on DICE from April 8

• Single Event Ticket → only available at the door

Justin Randolph Thompson

Justin Randolph Thompson is an artist and researcher whose practice spans visual arts, performance, and historical research, with a particular focus on colonial memory, the legacies of the African diaspora, and the processes through which public memory is constructed. His work often investigates the relationship between history, monuments, and official narratives, questioning how the past is told and celebrated in contemporary public space.

Ernes Amores Guerra

Ernes Dariel Amores Guerra is a Cuban multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer whose practice seamlessly blends tradition and contemporaneity. With a background in Modern Cuban Dance and Folklore, his work focuses on an authentic body language that opens Afro-Cuban roots to urban and contemporary contaminations. Currently based in Italy, his artistic expression spans teaching, live performance, and freestyle, moving with versatility across dance, singing, and rap.

Il peso non mi sarà grave (Your weight will not burden me)

At Electropark they presents “Il peso non mi sarà grave”, a performance that explores founding myths and colonial memory through a Sankofa-inspired reading of the past as a space capable of generating new perspectives on the future. The work brings into dialogue the figure of Christopher Columbus, the epic narrative of the Aeneid, and the layered histories surrounding the so-called Casa di Colombo in Genoa.

Through bodies, sound, and gesture, the work examines monuments and civic commemorations as devices that transform history into myth. The work also draws on the story of the alleged remains of Columbus, symbolically returned to Genoa after the Second World War in a ceremony in which African American soldiers carried the urn, opening a reflection on forms of commemoration and the enduring legacies of coloniality in public space.

In collaboration with Lilith Festival

Production Teatro della Tosse