November 9th at 7:30 PM

COURTNEY DESIREE MORRIS & DRAGONFLY
(AKA ROBIN LAVERNE WILSON):ORISHA WEDDING

Orisha Wedding is a queer re-imagining of the relationship between Shango and Oya, two powerful deities in the Yoruba religion who control the elements of fire, thunder, lightning, wind, and storms. This performance ritual is an erotically charged exploration of what it means to love the earth and to live with fire in a moment of climate crisis.

This will be performed as part of a double bill with Dendarry Bakery: You Will Be Played

About the artists

Courtney Desiree Morris

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual and conceptual artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the forthcoming book, To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua (Rutgers University Press). As an artist, her work is primarily concerned with ancestral memory, ritual work, ecology, climate change, death, mourning and funerary practice, and black feminist aesthetics. Her work focuses primarily on examining ancestral narratives and everyday ritual aesthetics among communities throughout the African Diaspora, with a particular emphasis in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Africa. She works primarily in the fields of large-format portrait and landscape photography, experimental video, performance, social practice, and installation art. She has shown work and performed nationally and internationally. She lives and works in Berkeley, CA. (WC 142)