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ado: a (re)mixed media installation is a site-specific performance ritual that takes place near the hudson river. It fuses sound, movement, text, and visual installation. It is a celebration. It is a jubilation. It is a homecoming. It is making lemonade out of lemons. It is bitterness turned sweet. It is a rapture, a riff, and a rupture. it is a conjuring, a divination, and a possession. It is the past, present, and future converging. audience-participant-witnesses will be invited to wash their hands with rose water and give offerings of oranges to Oshun.

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This event is part of the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition, curated by current Fellow Anthonywash.Rosado and titled ARCANUM, open from October 29, 2020 through January 7, 2021. The exhibition will present across multiple formats and locations, including a virtual gallery and public outdoor performances throughout New York City, new work by graduating Fellows of the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship program: Brian Gonzalez, Patrick G. Lee, María José Maldonado, Felli Maynard, Olaiya Olayemi, Sarah Sanders, and Sarah Zapata. ⁣Learn more at https://www.queer-art.org/arcanum.

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About Olaiya Olayemi

Olaiya Olayemi (aka mistress lovely olayummy the punk rock priestess of pleasure aka miss o aka jungle girl in a civilized world) is a blk / trans / womyn / writer / performance artist / filmmaker / and sound artist. Her work draws on blk diasporic queer feminist aesthetics and theories and is infused with a blk feminist politic of pleasure and ethic of joy. She creates highly experimental / interdisciplinary works of art where she explores love / sex / relationships / family / history / memory / and radical joy / pleasure in the lives of blk womyn. She holds a BA in English from DePaul University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.