Photos by Max Colson
arebyte Gallery presents ATLANTIC CRUISES, an evening of live performances by artists and performers Ebun Sodipo and Chloe Filani.
ATLANTIC CRUISES is a polyphonic audio-visual conversation expanding speculative and critical narratives on imagining the otherwise. Framed by moving image and sound, the two artists will speculate on the connections between imagination, the Atlantic, and Black trans-feminine existence, inviting the audience into a scripted conversation.
Ebun Sodipo makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Chloe Filani’s work consists of going on artistic journeys, be it solo or in collaboration with play, movement, expression of her voice and using her body to communicate the artistic self. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, both Sodipo and Filani devise softer, other ways of envisioning and discoursing about the body, desire, archives, and the past.
Event Programme
7:00pm - Doors open
7:30pm - Live performance
8:15pm - Artist talk
Ebun Sodipo and Chloe Filani discuss their artistic praxis and the themes behind the performance Atlantic Cruises
Book £5 tickets here or on the door
About the Artists
Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other-wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past.
Her work has been shown, read, watched, performed at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Centre, Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s How To Sleep Faster, Auto Italia, ICA, Tate Britain, Embassy Gallery, Wasafiri, CCA Annex, Camden Arts Centre, Frieze. She was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, and Gasworks. She is currently working on commissions for VISUAL Carlow, FACT Liverpool. She also teaches at Falmouth University.
Chloe Filani. Image: Eivind Hansen
Chloe Filani
Chloe Filani is an artist, performer, poet and writer working with and in her lived experiences as a black trans woman of Nigerian Heritage Yoruba and Eshan.
Examining the broader themes of identity and power structures, Filani’s work is about going on artistic journeys, be it solo or in collaboration with play, movement, expression of her voice and using her body to communicate the artistic self. Especially working with other Black women and femmes of similar experiences and expression within art – trying to find a way to communicate something through poetry, performance and sound work. Filani is currently working on a research project called Negro ecstasy/Black Ecstasy.
