An evening of healing lead by women; featuring meditations, sound baths, smell baths, conversations, sound healing, Live Ambient ASMR Soundscape, and more. Doors open at 7:00pm. The event will feature healing artists Maraliz (IKATU), Rena Anakwe, and JOJO ABOT.
The event is free and open to the public. Suggested donation of $10.00
An evening of healing lead by women; featuring meditations, sound baths, smell baths, conversations, sound healing, Live Ambient ASMR Soundscape, and more. Doors open at 7:00pm.
The event will feature healing artists Maraliz (IKATU), Rena Anakwe, and JOJO ABOT. The event is free and open to the public. Suggested donation of $10.00
JOJO ABOT is a Ghanaian artist expressing herself through music, film/photography, fashion, literature and performance art. FYFYA WOTO, meaning "New Birth - New Discovery" serves as the theme and title for her ongoing project exploring the SELF as a provocative tool in the discovery, exchange and evolution of the subject of IDENTITY. Through her work, JOJO Investigates new forms of spirituality and expression as part of a growing global conversation around shared space, identity and spirituality that exists beyond the conventional bias of color, race, class or sexual orientation.
Recently wrapping a year in NYC as a member of the New Museum's incubator program, NEW INC, JOJO also completed a residency at the acclaimed National Sawdust in NYC, and a week-long immersive residency via the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon. JOJO has toured with Ms Lauryn Hill, and played shows at Radio City Music Hall, SXSW, the Greek Theater and others along with Common, Seun Kuti and Stephen Marley. Having performed at iconic venues such as the Apollo Theater, Times Square on New Year’s eve, Museum of Modern Art, Kennedy Center and Kings Theater among others, Abot continues to take on a global audience.
Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. She is based in Brooklyn, New York by way of Nigeria and Canada.
Rena is a graduate of: the Interactive Telecommunications Program (iTP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (MPS), The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University (MFA) and New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business (BS.)
She is a 2019 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 Abrons Arts Center (AAC) Sound Series commissioned artist, a 2018 Signal Culture Artist-in-Residence and has collaborated, produced and shown audio/visual/scent work at: ISSUE Project Room (NYC), NY Live Arts, Nublu 151 (NYC), Pioneer Works (NYC), Montez Press Radio @ Mathew Gallery (NYC), H0L0 (NYC), Mount Tremper Arts (NY), Green Space (NYC), Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), La MaMa E.T.C. (NYC), Danspace Project (NYC), MAD Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), TCC Chicago (CHI), MINKA [BAX/Submerge] (NYC), Knockdown Center (NYC), NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1(NYC), Les Nubians ‘Up Close & Personal’ Tour (VARIOUS), The Tank (NYC), CTM Festival (GER), the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), Europe’s Capital of Culture in Turku (FI.) And was a guest curator for Knockdown Center’s ‘Sunday Service.’
Maraliz (IKATU) is a Paraguayan-American sound artist who has turned extreme chronic pain into a muse. Her work as a sound practitioner and wellness guide challenges widely accepted industry narratives. Vice Tonic applauded her work as a wellness influencer who is steering the industry towards increased diversity and Wanderlust named her 35 under 35 in wellness for her pioneering soundscapes.
She's fluent across genres: Ambient, Techno, House, Low-fi, Hip-Hop, World, etc... Her live sets are an amalgamation of rich sound traditions, modern tech, field recordings, and voice/instrument looping. Maraliz' works are informed by her training as a certified sound practitioner, producer, meditation facilitator, DJ, and sound designer.
As a Latina living with chronic pain, she promotes accessibility, inclusivity and wellness for all while teaching us to shift our unconscious reactions to chosen responses.
When utilizing the vibrational vehicle of sound, she combines scientific and intuitive techniques to invite self-exploration and reprogramming through sensory access to neuroplasticity.
Sadaf Padder works as an advocate of arts and education access. She believes in the power of the hand to activate and heal. She had her first henna tattoos as a toddler in New York at Chaand Raats and mendhis. When she began teaching 8 years ago, henna cones became a tool of meditation. She is now a BK-based writer, painter, jewelry-maker, and manager working with non-profits and visual artists. Her exhibition, “Disembodiment,” opens Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at Local Project Art Space in Long Island City. Find her @pitterpadder.
happylucky no.1 is pleased to present POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN, an exhibition and program series by interdisciplinary artist JOJO ABOT.
This project is the result of a layered and complex combination of mediums, which include film, photography, acrylic and watercolor works, textiles, sculpture, and sound installations. This multifaceted approach is for an equally ambitious purpose. As the artist puts it, “this body of work serves as a reflection of the anxieties and joys of my own pursuit of self knowledge, divine wisdom, freedom, and the ever elusive idea of home outside of the physical manifestation of self.”
In an installation entitled Consequence of Movement, the artist offers an exploration of the subject of movement as the very basis of imagination, creation, and evolution. Looking closely at the relationship between intention and the realization of particular outcomes as anchors of manifestation, the artist affirms the connection between all things living and nonliving, material and immaterial, human and superhuman as she weaves a thread between the roles of consciousness, identity, spirituality, social dynamics, nature and art in creating synergy and harmony towards divine consequence.
With this dynamic approach and collective intent in mind, ABOT will also be reaching out to individuals and communities within Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Along with the physical work within the gallery, the artist’s time in the neighborhood will result in “activations” in the space that are in direct conversation with the people of Crown Heights. On June 6, June 9, June 12, June 13, and June 16, ABOT will be creating unique performances based on her time in and outside the gallery. In a statement, ABOT writes that “through this self-led pilgrimage, I emerge from the portals of my imaginations, fears and dreams far more honest, audacious, raw, and vulnerable in my offerings. It is with this humbling sense of gratitude inspired awe, that I invite a global community into this sacred space and time of presence, empathy, and rebirth as we manifest a lighthouse that awakens ancestral memory towards sacred collective healing. Our time is now to rise unite, and restore POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN.”
The opening of the exhibition will also serve as the release of the artists’s third EP under the same title as the exhibition, POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN.
