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Presenting Fire Butoh 4!

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Dear friends,

It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. Thanks to you all who are following! Things have been wild and surprising since my last post.

I was accepted to NYU – Tisch’s Performance Studies Master’s program and have been reading all sorts of beautiful, inspiring and complicated theories about the ways we humans perform ourselves and our identities and how we structure society and experience…

I made a trip to Nigeria in which I narrowly missed being in Abuja on the same day of a bombing that claimed many lives.

I’ve also gotten into a television series that will premiere on channel 25 here in NYC but that’s another story for another time.

Before I began my studies at NYU, I collaborated with some friends on a new and I think, final, installment in my Fire Butoh Series that began in 2007.

I have been very emotionally affected by fire all my life. The basement of of our first house in America caught on fire once… and I’m a fire sign. Fire keeps us warm, lights our way in the dark, cooks our food and dances. I hoped to be that magical and have given much consideration to this living organism, fire.

Without further ado, I present to you, “Fire Butoh 4!”

Thanks to Mikhail Torich, Teddy Bonsu, Kristen Bacino and Bryant Keller for all their help on this shoot! Lots of love!! -E.

Love The Empress Edoheart + Samm Bennett + Pikacyu (Afrirampo) + Bun666 & The Angels (Fumihiro Nishibori + Keiko Okumura- ex. Papa Wemba Viva La Musica + nilksnow + Ryushi Kinugawa + Sei Koichi + Roberto Salgado Santana + Takahashi Kinukawa + Junji Kano) + K.E.I. (VOVIVAV) @ Super-Deluxe 7/5 Tokyo

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

開場 … 19:30
開演 … 20:00
料金 … 2000円 (ドリンク付き)
LOVE THE EMPRESS EDOHEART

LIVE: Edoheart + Samm Bennett + ピカチュウ(あふりらんぽ) + Bun666 & The Angels / K.E.I.(VOVIVAV) タロットの大アルカナの3番目のカード「女帝」から発想を得た作品の世界ツアーでスピリチュアルなパフォーマンスアートをすばらしいゲスト陣とともに公演中のEdoheartがSuperDeluxeに登場。

Introduction to Edoheart with a spiritual multimedia sound+performance-art project on world tour and very very special guests. Inspired by the 3rd Major Arcana card in traditional tarot-The Empress.

http://www.super-deluxe.com/2010/7/5/edoheart/

Love The Empress♥Edoheart + Pikacyu(Afrirampo) + Bun666 & The Devil’s Discipline feat. Keiko Okumura + Roberto Salgado Santana + DJ Sandnorm +++♥ @ bar bonobo 7/4 Tokyo

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

bar bonobo
7/4 (日) Start 7pm − Last train
2,000円w.1 drink

EDOHEART♡ “Love The Empress” Tour from NY ( African Butoh Dancer+Vocalist )
PIKACYU☆ ( Drums,Vocalist / あふりらんぽ )
BUN666 & THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLINE ( 元ミライのギターリスト、西堀Bun666文啓のミニマル・ジャズ・ユニット )
KEIKO OKUMURA ( Conga,percussion / Ex.Papa Wemba Viva La Musica )
ROBERTO SALGADO SANTANA ( Conga,percussion from Cuba )
成浩一 ( Bass / Ex.のいづんずり )
衣川隆司 ( Drums)
かの順治 ( Guitar / Ex. HMS from Ashikaga )

DJ Sandnorm

http://bonobo.jp/schedule.php?itemid=1396

Press Release: Jesus of All Niggers

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Jesus of All Niggers by Eseohe Arhebamen Now Available from Laughing Mouse Press

Laughing Mouse Press is proud to announce the release of Jesus of All Niggers, a collection of poetry by Brooklyn-based poet and performer Eseohe Arhebamen. Jesus of All Niggers collects thirty of Eseohe’s poems from 1998 to 2009, including two image poems. The volume is a half-legal saddle-stitch chapbook with color covers and color illustrations, and is available online from http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/.

Laughing Mouse Press is a small press that specializes in making art books in a broad sense – books that are art, books for artists, books by artists, books of art – by emerging authors and artists. The Press was founded in 2002 in Minneapolis by Spencer Keralis, and is now based in Littleton, Colorado. Their catalogue features hand-made books and collaborations between poets, graphic designers, photographers, and other literary and visual artists. Several releases are planned for 2010, of which Jesus of All Niggers is the first. View the complete catalogue, as well as event and artist information at http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/.

Jesus of All Niggers
Eseohe Arhebamen

ISBN: 978-0-9843248-1-1
60 pages, saddle-stitch.
http://laughingmouse.net/books/jesus-of-all-niggers/


Artist’s Note:
The N-word is defined as any “victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised”. The title of this work comes from one of the poems within, titled “Shoes”, which discusses the author’s overwhelming wish to save and uplift all disenfranchised people of the Earth and to change the structures which instigate inequality.

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