conjuring sexxx majik: sensual movement and rock music
Presented by olaiya olayemi
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 & Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 6-9pm | At Vox
$20, Pay Olaiya-Olayemi on Venmo to Reserve Your Spot!
we live in pleasurable, creative bodies that move and sound. moving towards pleasure is our natural, primal state of being. In this creative lab, we will explore all our bodies: our physical bodies as well as our emotional, spiritual and mental bodies to excavate and cultivate body knowledge. using antidisciplinary aesthetics and pleasure politics as a framework and point of entry, we will improvise movement to rock soundscapes and compose short performative erotic rituals of reawakening that invoke initiation, release, and rebirth. what is in yr creative cauldron and what things will bubble to the surface?
Artist Bio
olaiya olayemi is a blk/trans/femme/womxxxn/anti-disciplinary artist/educator/and pleasure organizer who centers womxxxn of the african diaspora in her performative/literary/cinematic/and sonic works of art that explore love/sex/relationships/family/history/memory and radical joy/pleasure.. she has performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, JACK, AAA3A, metaDEN, The Wild Project, The Langston Hughes House, Starr Bar, Mayday Space, and Dixon Place. she holds a bachelor of arts in english/creative writing (with a minor in african/black diaspora studies) from depaul university and a master of fine arts in creative writing from emerson college where she was a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship. she is a 2019-2020 Performance Fellow in Queer Art’s mentorship program, a Fall 2020 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grantee, a finalist in Fresh Fruit’s 2020 Film/Monologue Festival, a 2020-2021 American Woman Fellow in Dramatic Question Theatre’s American Woman Lab, and a 2020-2022 participant in Gibney Dance’s Black Diaspora group. she currently lives in philadelphia. MORE INFO:pillowtalkwithaplaygurrrl.com @capricorn1089
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Please note that Vox Populi is located on the third floor of a historic warehouse building at 319 N. 11th Street and that there are five steps leading from the street-level to the first-floor landing where the passenger elevator picks-up/drops-off. The entry into/out of the elevator is 29-inches wide, so may not accommodate all wheelchairs or motorized chairs. Any individual requiring a ramp to navigate this entryway is encouraged to get in touch with Vox Populi ahead of time to coordinate ramp-access and discuss accessibility details. Our ramps may not be suitable for all wheelchairs or motorized chairs, so we strongly encourage anyone requiring a ramp to be in touch at: events@voxpopuligallery.org or 215.238.1236
Covid Precautions: All visitors to Vox Populi are encouraged to wear a high-quality mask over their mouth and nose at all times while on-site, or when not actively consuming food or beverage.
