
02 sep (Co)Opulence
Let it Pour, Let it Rain” by (Co)Opulence (2022)
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
(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.