MAXHETE

[2025]

Performance-installation, live Dj set.

[slurring]

     “… you going… b-back alon’????? Thr… not!!! .  by the banana  
                                                                          planntations????!”

     ask the w w’rong tree in those swamps, you won’t t make
    it back. spirit doesn’t walk... drags, through h 
                         the mud, with a blade too big for 
                                        one to c-carry.” 

                      [pause]. 
       “he’s not t just a man. he’s the shadows of those 
  left behin d d” .

Inspired by anecdotes from nightlife, Costa Rican leyendas, and memories from Central America's banana enclave period, this performative invocation explores the spectral presence of MAXHETE, an entity born from myth, memory, and the echoes of stories that refuse to be buried.



[concept, performance, installation] Mario Barrantes Espinoza
[live Dj set] Pierre Bayet aka Fake Moss
[costume direction] Nikos Kalaz

[video] Joanna Pronczak, Davide Belotti

[Premiered] 
15.03.2025 – ZigStudio x Apolemia (São Paulo, BR).      
       

[Past] 
20.09.2025 – Kaaitheater x Beyond the Black Box (Brussels, BE)
04.10.2025 – Kaput #9  (Manila, PH)


[Upcoming]
26.03.2026 – Eaton HK x Art Week Hong Kong (Hong Kong, HK)
27.04.2026 – International Festival of Contemporary Dance (San José, CR)
15.05.2026 – Horst Arts and Music Festival (Vilvoorde, BE)
20.06.2026 – Waking Life (Crato, PT)
15.11.2026 – FIAP Martinique (Martinique, FR)