Dates:
7 Dec 2022 - 11 Dec 2022
People:
Location:
ICF @ Block 336, 336 Brixton Road London SW9 7AA
Exhibition Details:
8 – 11 December
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 12 – 5pm
Sunday 12 – 4pm
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. During this process, she was concerned with what dreamings, imaginings, potentials and possibilities are opened up and actioned when the body – particularly the b/Black diasporic body – is understood beyond dualism, monolithic stereotypes, and a fixed idea of identity.
Starting from a place of attunement, Calling the Body to attention was an invitation to reflect on what it could mean for us to connect to an awareness of a full-bodied, expansive, and imaginative self that, in each moment, is weaving new ideas into space.
For the exhibition, Yewande has produced two limited edition artist prints, which can be purchased in our shop.
PROGRAMME
Calling the Body to attention opens with a live performance by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Auclair
Wednesday 7 December, 6 – 9pm
Doors open: 6pm, performance begins: 7:30pm
This performance, by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Auclair, brings life to the ideas expressed in one of the exhibit’s installations entitled, What I hide by my language, my body utters. Rooted in the language of music and dance movement, their improvisations harmonise with the syncopated rhythms of the installation. Their acts of translation transcend the boundaries of the exhibition space to complicate linear rhythms and find unique moments.
The Score(s) III – performance by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Rohan Ayinde
Saturday 10 December, 6 – 7:30pm
Doors open: 6pm, performance begins: 6:30pm
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 animate 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.’
People:
Exhibition Details:
8 – 11 December
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 12 – 5pm
Sunday 12 – 4pm
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. During this process, she was concerned with what dreamings, imaginings, potentials and possibilities are opened up and actioned when the body – particularly the b/Black diasporic body – is understood beyond dualism, monolithic stereotypes, and a fixed idea of identity.
Starting from a place of attunement, Calling the Body to attention was an invitation to reflect on what it could mean for us to connect to an awareness of a full-bodied, expansive, and imaginative self that, in each moment, is weaving new ideas into space.
For the exhibition, Yewande has produced two limited edition artist prints, which can be purchased in our shop.
PROGRAMME
Calling the Body to attention opens with a live performance by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Auclair
Wednesday 7 December, 6 – 9pm
Doors open: 6pm, performance begins: 7:30pm
This performance, by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Auclair, brings life to the ideas expressed in one of the exhibit’s installations entitled, What I hide by my language, my body utters. Rooted in the language of music and dance movement, their improvisations harmonise with the syncopated rhythms of the installation. Their acts of translation transcend the boundaries of the exhibition space to complicate linear rhythms and find unique moments.
The Score(s) III – performance by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Rohan Ayinde
Saturday 10 December, 6 – 7:30pm
Doors open: 6pm, performance begins: 6:30pm
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 animate 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.’
Dates:
7 Dec 2022 - 11 Dec 2022
Location:
ICF @ Block 336, 336 Brixton Road London SW9 7AA
