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Artist's Statement
Media-generated synesthesia. A series of physical movements becomes a relationship between musical notes or the emotional temperature of the environments in a video. I am not interested in making sense. I have spent many years studying the construction of language. I now have an obsession with undoing language. (Stop speaking.) I began my career as a poet and a writer; now in my work, I am written . (Be spoken.) I am a black Afrikan woman. I was born in Nigeria. My grandmother is the Princess Nodumwenben Osazuwa. My great-grandfather had forty wives. I have witnessed exorcisms and possessions. There are many worlds in coexistence, many spirits named Eseohe Arhebamen. I am a madhouse of characters that put on rainboots and go stomping outside in bad weather. We are not interested in sanity. I work in multiple media- poetry, plays, music, video, dance, painting and sculpture. My creations exist on multiple levels of meaning; there are internal dialogues between the different media. For example, a poem and a video may be in collusion in one of my performances, mocking the lexicon of my physical movements. A puppet of my own making. For the purposes of liberating my Primitive body from your minds, I am showing how life began.
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Eseohe Arhebamen
Edoheart
info@edoheart.org
http://edoheart.org
Performance Works
UPCOMING
EWA BAMI'JO Festival 2009, Edoheart in partnership with Yk Projects
and the United African Institute, Nigeria
2009
Performance at the Nigerian Consulate, New York
Soundcollaboration with Sinuhé Padilla Isunza, Brooklyn, New York
Film Presentation, Columbia Teacher's College, New York
eAIR Butoh sketch, Forward Motion Theater, New York
East Village Radio Interview, New York
La Tierra Prometida, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York
Number 18, a dance choreography for two homosexual men, New York
The Cement Factory, a film collaboration with FMT, Long Island City, New York
Facebook Blonder Battle with Rachel Hoffman, New York-Florida, USA
2008
NONGRATA, Leo Kesting Gallery, New York
Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea
Guilty, an improv. collaboration with Sato Yukie and Steve Vanoni, Seoul, Korea
The Cement Factory, a musical collaboration with Eric Shieh, Harlem, New York
How Far? featuring Fire Butoh 3, Monkeytown, New York
Fundraiser for Peace / a benefit for Michigan Peaceworks, New York
Ophelia, a synesthetic dance choreography, New York
Thompson Square Park: Guerilla Butoh, New York
DanceLab: Osemwegie-Ehigiator Osazuwa, Theatre Arts / Masscommunication Dept., Nigeria
University of Benin: Artistic Co-Director, Igodomigodo, Edo State, Nigeria
Art is Life on Jesus Christ Road, Edo State, Nigeria
Seeking My Beloved Spirit After Twenty Years I Return Home, Lagos, Nigeria
21st Century African Critics, International
Oliva: Drums & Percussion with Peter Davis Barr, New York
Performance production series: Edoheart presents, New York
self-propelled machinemusik , soundcollaboration with Toshio Kajiwara, New York
Chaos Diffluens with Fred Pinault, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York
Es Su Casa, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York
A Birthday Party for Taje & Eseohe, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York
Fire Butoh 2, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York
2002-2007
Fire Butoh 1, Hunter College, New York
The N Word, a documentary film work with Jay Bachhuber, New York
Debut Evening / Midweek Music Mixer Mash, TenEleven, New York
Us Up On the Moon, an interdisciplinary project with Jessica Jackson, Brooklyn, New York
NY Butoh-Kan, New York
Storytelling, Wingspan Arts, New York
Martin Luther King Day music presentation with Luke Winslow King, Bronx, New York
Musical series with Maggie Smith, Brooklyn, New York
Wide Open Floor, University of Michigan Theater Department, An Arbor
Poetry and Fiction Writing Workshops with Maria Christoff, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Music performance with NOMO / opening for The Wailers, The Majestic, Detroit, Michigan
Environmental Justice Initiative Poetry Slam, Ann Arbor, Michigan
College Unions Poetry Slam, Cincinnati, Ohio
U-Club Poetry Slam Finals, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Crazy Wisdom Tearoom: Featured Poet, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Speaker, Take Back the Night, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Education
2007 B.A. Studio Art candidate Hunter College-New York
2005 B.A. Creative Writing and Literature University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Teaching Experience
2009 Butoh Training Workshops for Performance, New York
2008 English Language Arts Tutor, Hamilton-Madison House, New York
2007 Art Instructor & Storyteller, Wingspan Arts- P.S. 40 & P.S. 183, New York
2006 Poetry Instructor, Dr. White Community Center, Brooklyn, New York
2004 English Language Arts Tutor, Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, New York
2003 Tutor, The Pro-Testers, Inc., Brooklyn, New York
2002 Poetry and Fiction Teacher, Stewart Elementary School, Detroit, Michigan
Awards
2006 Poet of the Day, Poets Against the War
2002 Writer-in-Residence, InsideOut Literary / Arts Project, Detroit, Michigan
2002 Environmental Justice Initiative First Place Award, University of Michigan
2002 College Unions Poetry Slam National Champion First Place, Ohio Invitational
2001 University Of Michigan Hopwood Award (Poetry)
2001 Arthur Miller Award (Fiction), University of Michigan
2000 Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize (Writing), University of Michigan
1998 Residential College Fellowship, University of Michigan
Publications
2006 The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, University of Michigan Press
2006 Softblow Online Poetry Journal
2006 The Yellow Elephant, Volume #1
2006 The Hudson Press, Issue #1
2003 Poets Against the War
2003 Seeding the Clouds, Ornithology Press
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