Archive for the ‘Performance’ Category

FIRE BUTOH 2 – PART ONE AND PART 2

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Fire Butoh 2, Part 1

Fire Butoh 2, Part 2

Fire Butoh 2 Credits:
Eseohe Arhebamen performs fire Butoh at Grace Exhibition Space, New York 2008.
Choreography: Eseohe Arhebamen in collaboration with Vangeline
Sound: self-propelled machinemusik by Eseohe Arhebamen and Toshio Kajiwara
Stage design by Eseohe Arhebamen
Lighting design by Jene Youtt
Visuals: Ruby Gold + room 404 media + dinosaur fight of the zuvuya collective
Video: Austin Donohue, Firewalker Productions
Notes: Eseohe is calling this type of butoh performance, Butoh-vocal theater. The sound/music she has created and termed her Butoh-singing.

Low Lives PRESS RELEASE

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Jorge Rojas, Curator
keoqui@gmail.com

FiveMyles in Brooklyn, Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami, and labotanica in Houston Present Low Lives

Saturday, August 8, 2009, 6 – 9pm (EST)

(Brooklyn, Miami, Houston)Low Lives is a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues throughout the U.S.– FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses (5 – 8 pm in Houston). Low Lives examines works that explore the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. (more…)

Wanted in New York: an Open Space

Friday, June 19th, 2009

A highlight of my European tour, Michael Steger’s Open Space is a refreshing oasis for the unwanted artist. Open Space was host to the continuation of Al Paldrok’s Diverse Universe as the first “International Printer and Performance Festival” and took place on Berlin’s infamous May 1st. Thousands of performers, protesters, party-goers and arts patrons descended on Berlin’s Kreuzberg, making for an insane spectacle that I cannot believe I survived!

You can view a selection of photographer and resident webmaster Luz Scherwinski’s photographs of the festival on the Open Space website here: http://www.openspace32.de/galerie.php or on my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/edoheart/ (more…)

Diverse Universe Festival 2009 Press

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

From the culture journal, SIRP, these words:

“Arhebamen’s performances are very powerful ritual, which goes far beyond the modern feminine materiality bimboculture and represents more… creative power.”

This is where I turn green, grow enormous muscles and burst out of my clothing. But honestly, how flattering! Special thanks to the very fashionable billeneeve- makes her own clothes- for alerting me to this next one. I would never have known… and neither it seems, do the writers of this hilarious blog. By the way, click on any of the images or links to go to the original article.

okay, so they don't know my name

I was basically the only black person in Estonia.

OK, so they don’t know my name yet but I think they like my style- I think.

From other media:

i think the caption repeats my artist's statement on the diverse universe website. i think

There were two articles from this paper, Parnu Postimees, about my performances. Sometimes you can kind of, sort of imagine what the words mean. Google’s translation of the other, similar caption says:

“Very emotional piece, the origin of the Nigerian Eseohe Arhebamen, whose narrative is an integral movement of the wall design of moving images and music. Tranquillizing veevulin and immobile inimskulptuur Arhebameni emotional vaheldusrikkas performance went smoothly, and the artist’s activities over the hüsteeriaks rituaali pointed out, during which people bring seestunud the negative forces.”

I hope you understand. But wait, there’s more!

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