Dates:
10 Dec 2022
People:
Location:
Block 336, London
What is located between the everyday experience of b/Black aliveness (1) and the desire to create structural change and imagine new worlds?
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. In iteration III of The Score(s) they animated the quiet magnitude of 5 photos from Carrie Mae Weems’ ‘Kitchen Table Series’ with movement, sound and dialogue. This piece responds to and draws on a Black Radical Tradition (2) that spans a multiplicity of b/Black geographies and spacetimes.
Dive into the ‘texts’ explored in The Score(s): III on here.
Citations:
(1) Kevin Quashie, ‘Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being.’
(2) Cedric Robinson, ‘Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.’
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:
What is located between the everyday experience of b/Black aliveness (1) and the desire to create structural change and imagine new worlds?
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. In iteration III of The Score(s) they animated the quiet magnitude of 5 photos from Carrie Mae Weems’ ‘Kitchen Table Series’ with movement, sound and dialogue. This piece responds to and draws on a Black Radical Tradition (2) that spans a multiplicity of b/Black geographies and spacetimes.
Dive into the ‘texts’ explored in The Score(s): III on here.
Citations:
(1) Kevin Quashie, ‘Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being.’
(2) Cedric Robinson, ‘Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.’
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:
10 Dec 2022
Location:
Block 336, London
