EVAN IFEKOYA, ACTIVE RECOVERY, A CEREMONY, SPIRAL TIME

The Museum as Performance – 8th Edition

Serralves Park’s Rose Garden
11 SEP 2022

20:00

2022 - O Museu Como Performance - Active Recovery

Active Recovery, A Ceremony, Spiral Time is a way into non linear thinking and non rational thought, prioritising the embodied, energetic and intuitive over the theoretical and intellectual - A performance lecture as ritual container. Abundant blackness. conceptions of time, subtle senses, the quantum and the infinite. Static objects still in motion.

Evan Ifekoya’s work in community organising, performance, sound, text and video is an extension of their calling as a spiritual practitioner. They view art as a site where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, whilst challenging the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space. Through archival and sonic investigations, they speculate on blackness in abundance. Strategies of space holding through architectural interventions, ritual, sound and workshops enable them to make a practice of living in order not to turn to despair.

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Evan Ifekoya
Evan Ifekoya

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Evan Ifekoya
Evan Ifekoya

Evan Ifekoya established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of colour) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) in 2018. Presentations in 2022 include a solo exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich and a moving image commission with LUX in collaboration with University of Reading. They have presented exhibitions, moving image and performances across UK Europe and Internationally, most recently: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as nominees of the Turner Prize (with B.O.S.S. 2021); Gus Fischer New Zealand (2020); De Appel Netherlands (2019) and Gasworks London (2018).

http://www.evanifekoya.com

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