Gina Athena Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian-American artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her publications include the award-winning Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD (2017) and copious articles, essays and creative works in journals and anthologies. In 2020, she participated in the Biennale of Sydney, Australia. Over the years, she has performed at The British Museum, Gorki Theatre, LaMaMa, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall, and other venues.

Gina Athena Ulysse is working on a performance, VooDooDoll: An Alter(ed)native in Something Other than Fiction. Using rasanblaj – the gathering of ideas, things, people, and spirits – the work juxtaposes sonic, lyrical, and visual elements to riff on geopolitical history, personal narrative, and statistics laced with popular songs and ancestral chants. This meditation places Haiti at the avant-garde as a universal pivot to ruminate on the past in the present while deflecting dystopic futurities.