Thu 26 Jun, 7-7.45pm
Gallery 2
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i.as.in.we will present an in-person public sharing of The Score(s): III. Weaving together a growing body of ‘texts’, this live performance is an embodied translation of Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Rohan Ayinde’s collaborative studying practice. Staged in the domestic space of a kitchen across five scenes, each scene is a speculative unfolding of a photograph from American artist Carrie Mae Weems’ Kitchen Table Series (1990), using dance, sound, dialogue and poetry. Drawing on a Black radical tradition that spans a multiplicity of b/Black geographies and spacetimes, the performance asks what exists between everyday experiences of ‘Black aliveness’ and the desire to create structural change and imagine new worlds.
Doors will be open from 6.30pm and visitors are welcome to interact with the materials on the table.
i.as.in.we is the wayward, motile collaboration between artists Rohan Ayinde and Yewande YoYo Odunubi. Working across mediums and between individual practices, their work explores the relationship between source material and final output, experimenting with different modes of translation, citation, assemblage, and collaborative improvisation as methods of enquiry. Grounded in shared explorations of Black feminist thought, speculative imagination, and embodied practice, they generate an unfolding landscape, which they’ve termed the ‘b/Black Expansive Imagination.’ Through their exploration of material and movement, their work drifts between text, movement, mark-making, video, and curatorial projects, seeking to develop language(s) that might help us understand new ways of being/becoming in this world.
Rohan is an ‘anadisciplinary’ artist and poet who, through an entanglement with the phenomenon of the black hole, attempts to excavate an architecture of ideology through the analytical framework of Black feminist thought. His work investigates how the politics of place is shaped by conceptual positions.
Yewande is an artist and cultural producer whose practice revolves around the inquiry, ‘What does the body need to dream?’ She draws on freestyle-improvisation as both choreographic and pedagogical methods to experiment with the body’s present and imagined possibilities.
