Wet Dreams
by
N.I.PS (Nuns in Paradise)
Temitope Ajose & Leah Marojević
Date: Saturday 1st April
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 / Un-ticketed performance (Booking Guide)
Venue: Tramway | T4
Accessibility Info: V | S (Access Guide)
Age Rating: 14+
Two bodies are naked; soaked in water, laying on top of one another, entangled in a latex seaweed-esque skirt that joins them at the waist - each adorned with neck ruffs, they are one amoebic entity.
Wet Dreams, by Leah Marojević and Temitope Ajose - aka N.I.PS (Nuns in Paradise) - is an oceanic journey that employs the dangerous and alluring archetype of the Siren to propose a singular body that becomes a fictitious conduit for transfiguration. This new organism seduces, survives, dominates and devours via singing, calling, battling and blissing out.
With original sound score by artist Jame St. Findlay, Yorùbá chants and Serbian Folk music ebbs and flows in and out of Leah and Temitope’s live voice composition.
Wet Dreams is a delicious proposition to become mythological. The female, queer, black and white bodies become their own entity and deep dive from earth-bound lenses and concerns… living in the deep and the dark, the animal body in all its wild glory exists both painfully and happily here.
Credit:
Created and Performed by: Leah Marojević & Temitope Ajose aka N.I.PS (Nuns in Paradise)
Sound: Jame St Findlay
Costume: Studio FCLX
Developed and presented as part of Nah Dran Extended, Ada Studios Berlin 2022
Content Warnings:
This performance contains nudity.
N.I.PS (Nuns in Paradise)
N.I.PS (Nuns in Paradise) are Leah Marojević and Temitope Ajose - performers and makers based in London and Berlin. They have been working together since 2017 for visual artist Megan Rooney and choreographers Darcy Wallace and Theo Clinkard. Their works have been presented at Serpentine Galleries London, Lyon Biennale, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Salzburger Kunstverein, Victoria & Albert Museum and London Independent Film Festival.
Since 2020 their separate practices have found a synergy and courage together to form the collective duo N.I.PS, where they debut their performance Wet Dreams as part of Buzzcut 2023.
Their collective practice works to destabilise verbal, human and visual centric natures of 21st century via the primitive power of their bodily instincts when they are together.
