(CO)OPULENCE COLLECTIVE: WE ARE SO EXHAUSTED WE FANTASIZE ABOUT SLEEP (2022) SERIES
Video documentation by Christian Brems
Created and performed at ArtHub by xiri tara noir and Sall Lam Toro
Video installation in collaboration with Deborah Ephrem, xiri tara noir and Sall Lam Toro
Sound Sall Lam Toro & xiri tara noir
Voice-over: Zylvester Rodriguez and Miriam Jiribilla
Graphics by Savan Mohammad-Amen
video stills by Christian Brems
how can we craft economies of Care and Desire?
how can the Erotic be at the Root of such?
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As part of their residency at Art Hub Copenhagen, the duo xiri tara noir & Sall Lam Toro present on the 1.12.22:
(Co)Opulence Collective ‘(Co)’ of Corpo, Coexistence, Collaboration, Co-thinking, Collapse
and various elements of their artistic process in the format of an installation performance titled:
“We are so exhausted that we fantasise about sleep”
the work of (Co)Opulence explores parallel realities of shapeshifter pro-hoe/heaux queer/trans pleasures, and the power of eroticism as ritualistic and choreographic processes. their Practice is striving to craft economies of Care and evoke Queer Pleasures.
the performance installation is a Process-based mapping universe of interdimensional journeys of Intimate Radical form. A Conversation where past and futures collide in a structural rehabilitation of Desire.
The performance installation seeks to offer new aesthetic languages for liberatory practices based on queering, pleasure, and anticapitalist thought, while engaging with forming Speculative Radical Spaces and Hopeful Futures.
Dj set by Xenia Xamanek
Photos by Open Out Festival
(Co)Opulence is a newly formed collective by duo xiri tara noir (they/them/princess) and Sall Lam Toro (they/them/hir), two interdisciplinary performance artists and organizers working in the field of multimedia performance art, dance and choreography. The collective work explores parallel realities of pro-hoe/heaux queer/trans pleasures, and the power of eroticism as ritualistic and choreographic practices. These engage with forming speculative radical spaces and hopeful futures, where the erotic interplays with and informs mutual aid economies that seek to build alternatives to capitalist, patriarchal and heteronormative structures.
The collective was born out of interrogations of the erotic for crafting new economies (material, of desire and care) forming a process-based mapping of visual happenings. These juxtapose with local and international conversational collages and frame new aesthetic languages for liberatory practices based on queering, pleasure, and anticapitalist thought.
Performed at Queer Art Festival Stockholm on the 24.09.2022 and at Open Out Festival in Trømso on the 30.09.2022
Documentation by Open Out
“Let it Pour, Let it Rain” (2022) work in progress live performance
pro-heaux/hoe shapeshifters
evoking
queer pleasures
interdimensional journeys of intimate radical form
past and futures collide
within the erotic
within ritual
within desire
resonance flirting
resonance flirting
slow motion lap dance
booty bouncing
your flesh whole
sanguine
devoted
famished
blurring the lines of you and I
beyond blood
beyond defining
what is you and what is me
care is language
care is our economy
care, negotiated
mutually