Dates:
7 Dec 2022
People:
Location:
ICF @ Block 336, London
ICF held an opening event for the exhibition Calling the Body to attention by Yewande YoYo Odunubi. This performance, by Yewande and sound artist Auclair, brought life to the ideas expressed in one of the exhibition installations entitled, What I hide by my language, my body utters. Rooted in the language of music and dance movement, their improvisations harmonised with the syncopated rhythms of the installation; their acts of translation transcended the boundaries of the exhibition space to complicate linear rhythms and find unique moments.
Calling the Body to attention, Yewande YoYo Odunubi’s first solo exhibition was a gesture towards (re)centring and (re)claiming the body as an embodied site of archive, communication and imaginings. Sitting on a moment of pause, it reflected on what might constitute a poetics of the body, and the role movement performs as a process and language for enlivening threads of inquiry.
Featuring moving image, sound and performance, and collaboration with music and sound artist Auclair and interdisciplinary poet Rohan Ayinde, the exhibition formed part of Yewande’s year-long Diasporic Curatorial Animateur Fellowship with ICF, during which she conducted research into our archive and exploring a series of questions that resonate with her practice between 2021 and 2022.
People:
ICF held an opening event for the exhibition Calling the Body to attention by Yewande YoYo Odunubi. This performance, by Yewande and sound artist Auclair, brought life to the ideas expressed in one of the exhibition installations entitled, What I hide by my language, my body utters. Rooted in the language of music and dance movement, their improvisations harmonised with the syncopated rhythms of the installation; their acts of translation transcended the boundaries of the exhibition space to complicate linear rhythms and find unique moments.
Calling the Body to attention, Yewande YoYo Odunubi’s first solo exhibition was a gesture towards (re)centring and (re)claiming the body as an embodied site of archive, communication and imaginings. Sitting on a moment of pause, it reflected on what might constitute a poetics of the body, and the role movement performs as a process and language for enlivening threads of inquiry.
Featuring moving image, sound and performance, and collaboration with music and sound artist Auclair and interdisciplinary poet Rohan Ayinde, the exhibition formed part of Yewande’s year-long Diasporic Curatorial Animateur Fellowship with ICF, during which she conducted research into our archive and exploring a series of questions that resonate with her practice between 2021 and 2022.
Dates:
7 Dec 2022
Location:
ICF @ Block 336, London
