
Performance
Calling the Body to attention – opening and performance by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and Auclair
07 Dec 2022
Block 336
London, United Kingdom
Calling the Body to attention, Yewande YoYo Odunubi’s first solo exhibition is a gesture towards (re)centring and (re)claiming the body as an embodied site of archive, communication and imaginings.
Featuring moving image, sound and performance, as well as collaboration with music and sound artist Auclair and interdisciplinary poet Rohan Ayinde, the exhibition forms part of Yewande’s year-long Diasporic Curatorial Animateur Fellowship with ICF, during which she has been conducting research into our archive and exploring a series of questions that resonate with her practice. During this process, she has been 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 is 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.
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