Welcome to the improvisational world of KAFAYAT Adegoke; a “Yorùba Funkster”.
A mug for campaigns channeled through art. Finding commonality globally.
Currently in rehearsals singing Soprano with the *London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), currently appearing on *BBC One; Russell T Davies ‘Years and Years’ *Channel 4 ‘Great British Sex’ *BBC 2 ‘Precious Hair and Beauty’ *Channel 4 ‘Steph’s Packed Lunch’ *’Manchester United FC Advert for Premier league tagged #Projectrestart’. Weekly radio show; Roundtable on 106.6FM. Worked with 12 Years a slave Director Steve McQueen on Hands Art project. Consulted with 2-time Grammy award winner Lekan Babalola to curate a jazz percussion rendition. Roadie to Grammy nominee/World-music Juggernaut Fela Seun Kuti & Egypt80. She sits on the Bradford Producing Hub; Creativity Council, and Arts Council England; North Area Council Dev. scheme.
Bodies are complicated, but integral subjects in contemporary art.
‘I curate work edible for every person who enjoys storytelling and shenanigans, hence my work cannot be confined to the boundaries of themes, race, gender, type and other labels’
”With a sunny disposition, I let audiences laugh at my insecurities and giggle at my inner struggles, including my cheerful obsession with being a female with a #Vulva – all as a tool to aid transformation and ascension”.
And for many years, I have been living by the logic of the Rotary 4 Way Test “Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendship? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?”
”Theatre maker, Folk-Jazz Musician & Percussion dancer (stage moniker Jala-Jala), Orìsha Arts specialist, Festival Programmer, Trustee, Young People mouth-piece, Unseen Disabilities Wellness Workshop Facilitator” …All experimental.
I am keen to approach my cross-genre work as research, critical, and curatorial analysis to recce pressing discomforts of contemporaneity and concepts like Body memory, Otherness, Consumerism, and Intimacy & Pleasure positive (as a vulnerability tactic, where you submit the body to the will of the audience, to reclaim the sensual, expose and overcome invisible codes of violence on the feminine body)‘.
For Kafayat, performance-making is a mode of enquiring about cultures, a strategy to respond to societal emergencies, and ofcourse making performance just for the sake of making performance (Play! and have soooo much fun!)
The Creative Director of Art empathy, and Curiosities (CIC) whose work is often informed by academic research mixed with humane lived experience. She is an empathy enthusiast who passionately researches/investigates new ideas on how to aid human flourishing. And believes that when any party ceases to contribute, the circle will be broken, and leakages will be discovered.
Her performance practice is Combined Arts; as she is boundary-daring on different art forms while blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
Rituals, Libations, Chants, Dance, Body Sx & Pleasure, Pop-Culture Critic, Community-Binder, Broadcast Journalist, Radio & TV personality.
To add to the growing buzz of this vibrant and audacious artist, Kafayat has yet again, been awarded the…
*International Creative Alliance Mentor Grant for Export/Import Performance Art Festival, Belgium
*Develop Your Creative Practice Grant (DYCP) – Arts Council England
*Project Grant – Arts Council England
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