Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble:
The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble: The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid. Photo by Maria Baranova.
About
Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid is a cycle of sacred love songs for the era of Internet Romance, a meditation on selfhood and intimacy in a mediated society. Three officiants perform an elaborate courtship ritual inside a kaleidoscopic video tent. The ritual is accompanied by live music and text taken from online dating profiles, internet scams, how-to dating guides, and the works of ecstatic poets. In Part 5 of their epic multi-disciplinary series The Art of Luv, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble attempts to imbue our modern search for love with a forgotten spiritual resonance.
Credits
Created by: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
Performed by: Tei Blow, Eben Hoffer, and Sean McEloy
With: John Gasper and Rigel Harris
The Art of Luv (Part 5): SWIPE RIGHT / ROKÉ Cupid was developed with support from The Bushwick Starr. The Art of Luv is a project of Creative Capital.
Performance History
May 24 - June 10, 2017 | The Bushwick Starr | Brooklyn, NY [premiere]
Selected Press
"In The Art of Luv 5: Swipe Right / ROKE Cupid, the alienation of online love and sentiment-drenched IRL expectations are equally satirized. As such, ROKE presents a series of tableaus that flatten the forms of desire, exposing the rose’s hilarious thorns while honoring its dark and cosmic allure."
– Patrick Gaughan, Hyperallergic [full article]
More info
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