Jean-Paul Weaver / Oyana

Jean-Paul Weaver / Oyana ( She/her/hers) is a Haitian-American living in Taipei. She uses visual and dance art mediums rooted in Haitian Vodou culture to document the continuum of ancestral storytelling with performance, visual art, and ritual altar installations. Her work focuses on embodying gender liberation through the lens of Indigenous futurism by using Haitian Vodou cosmologies to interface with the intersections of technology, spirituality, and decolonization and invoking a psychosomatic transference of genetic memory through the continuum of ritualistic ancestral indigenous dreams and metamorphic prophecies left behind to guide future generations through physical Vodou altars, visual projections, and dance.