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Headless & Neckless was born with a knee on a neck, of a headless neck, of a headless head. Always headless. Always with a neck trapped, hanging, suffocated, broken. What heads can stand upright on the neck? Headless & Neckless speaks of the distant rage that has blinded us, turning us into voyeuristic, selective eyes that see what and whom we want.
Alesa Herero (1984, Italy) is a black African human being born in Rome, the daughter of African parents. Mother of an enlightened daughter. Rejecting the Western idea that we are the work we do and believing in the constant transformation of human beings, she considers herself a human being who expresses herself as a writer, poet, singer, thinker. Born and raised in the dystopian and displaced space of the so-called Afro-European diaspora, she has developed her artistic practices by questioning the outcome of possibilities for non-white and non-heterodirected identities, including herself, as a creation of the colonial experience and the concept of universality, to help fuel capitalist and colonial dynamics. She is the author of Eppure c'era odore di pioggia, part of the anthology Future. Il domani raccontato dalle voci di oggi (2019). In 2020 she debuted her first solo performance Headless & Neckless.
Xullaji (1977, Portugal) is a poet and musician of Cape Verdean descent, best known for rapping as chullage and composing and designing sounds for visual artists and theater as soundslikenuno. His latest esquizophonic outburst is prétu, an afronaut who uses samples as portals of intersection in the spiral of time. Prétu's visual work is the layering of dreams, hallucinations, memories that are juxtaposed with so-called reality. Yesterday and tomorrow align in the tangential event called now, to break the timeline that white calls history. Previous struggles are yet to come and ancestral myths are future technology.