#81 Opening – The Belly of Momo

The belly opens through seven chapters unfolding across the evening. A threshold between the linear and the ungraspable, where multiple practices collide and multiple truths coexist at once.

Through this collaborative manifestation, Apostel and Osepa unpack the underbelly of Caribbean identity: the hidden becomes uncovered, the ignored is addressed, beauty coincides with the grotesque, contradiction runs rampant, and the secular meets superstition. Here, mourning, shame, and letting go intertwine with acknowledgment of what is and what will be.

This is not about resolution but about dwelling in plurality. The Caribbean root is explored not as singularity but as multitude. A space where opposing forces breathe together, where ancestors vibrate alongside the living, where sensory knowing displaces literal speech.

As Rozaly’s soundscape carries us through the chapters, we are invited to become entangled in what cannot be categorized. To slip into the space between clarity and opacity. To gather as a collective body at the threshold and occupy this experimental place where endings contain beginnings, where the belly holds contradictions as sacred.

Join us as we make noise together, cry together, remember together. Allow yourself to surrender certainty. Enter the belly.