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.

It so happens that I am obsessed with symbols and semiotics, the signs and signals with which we navigate our various environments, including that of the world wide web and her arachnid offspring, social networks. Similarly am I enamored of all things lingual, language and its turns, puns, limericks, bends and behaviors across different straits. To the end of fashioning myself another tongue with which to explore the rigmarole of metaphors and other signifying sayings, I have created a Facebook application experiment that I hope others will join me in using. (more…)

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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…)

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I met Eric Shieh, poet, teacher, prisoner-advocate, musician, composer and my good friend, in college. I was still reeling from post-traumatic stress and (more…)