Offering
> artist
> live groundings
> live sound
Info
Offering is a live series exploring rituals of grief in shared space through sound, immersive performance, and archival materials. Each iteration is site-specific and facilitated for collective eflections on bereavement.
Performances
2025 Offering V8 — Medūza Gallery (Vilnius, LT)
2023 Offering V7 — NN Contemporary Art (Northampton, UK)
2023 Offering V6 — Gropius Bau (Berlin, DE)
2023 Offering V5 — Haus am Waldsee (Berlin, DE)
2023 Offering V4 — La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES)
2023 Offering V3 — Oyoun (Berlin, DE)
2022 Offering V2 — St James’ Church Piccadilly (London, UK)
2022 Offering V1 — Samuel Worth Chapel (Sheffield, UK)
No Coração Dela
> writer/dramaturg
> dance/choreography
> performance
Info
no c o r a ç ã o dela explores heartbreak, romance and its cheesiness, and the process of mending a broken heart. The project delves into how these individual feelings are profoundly collective experiences that defy quantification. Rather than isolating heartache as a private, internalised experience, no c o r a ç ã o dela investigates how these emotions connect us: how we impact those around us and how they influence us. How do our hearts transform through love and loss? How do emotional fractures create new connections, forming a collective map of our experiences?
The artistic team uses dance, music, and storytelling to convey this collective journey of the heart. This goes from call and response, a freestyle dance floor practice brought in by Myriam Lucas and DJs Vanyfox and Shaka Lion, through okcandice’s writing on grief and Filipa Rocha Nunes’ field research on public policies and poetics, to the visual archive of the project by Rafaela Nato. The musicians, writers, and dancers merge their individual experiences of heartbreak with their artistic practices, creating a shared narrative of romance and loss. It abandons a vision of romance only meant for two, looking for a collective one, ready to embrace and address feelings of heartbreak and longing.
no c o r a ç ã o dela is a production by Marga Alfeirão in co-production with Sophiensæle and Kampnagel Hamburg. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by Teatro Municipal do Porto – Festival DDD, Impulstanz. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Team
Concept, Choreography & Performance — Marga Alfeirão
Choreography, Dance & Development — Myriam Lucas, Marga Alfeirão & Mariana Benenge
Dramaturg, Text & Spoken Word — okcandice & Filipa da Rocha Nunes
Music Production & Mixing — Vanyfox, Shaka Lion & Nidia
Costume — Isabelle Edi
Scenography — Francisca Spuzi
Light Design — Thais Nepomuceno Veiga
Documentation & Visual Communication — Rafaela Neto
Production Advisor & Support — Tiphaine Carrère, Tammo Walter & neon lobster
Distribution & Accompaniment — neon lobster - Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch
Thanks — Mateusz Szymanówka and SLIC unit
Performances
2025 — Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE)
2024 — Sophiensæle (Berlin, DE)
The Orator as Non-Mythic
> artist
> lecture
> performance
Info
The Orator As Non-Mythic was performed as part of the finissage In Search of Maintained Solidarity: A Frame for the No Longer Visible, curated in response to Oscar Murillo’s solo exhibition Horizontal Darkness in Search of Solidarity.
The performance-lecture explores the role of the narrator as a fantastical figure examined real-time in the practice/performance of oration.
Performance
2020 — Kunstverein (Hamburg, DE)
{{{thirdspace(d)out}}}
> artist
> live writing
> performance
Info
{{thirdspace(d)out}}} was written, produced and recorded live by okcandice as part of Jumoke Adeyanju’s Berlin-Lagos residency.
Jumoke Adeyanju developed the concept of {{{thirdspace(d)out}}} as a one-day, multimedia performance series during her stay in Lagos. She combines live painting (Thomias Radin), live writing (okcandice), music (Jack Mensah) and dance (Thomias Radin & Jumoke Adeyanju) to explore the many stages and dimensions of diasporic nostalgia, postcolonial transformative healing and resurrection of lost memories.
{{{thirdspace(d)out}}} includes recorded interviews and a soundscape that explore liminality, the in-between, of reciprocal memories. Adeyanju goes beyond African identity markers and focuses on African and Caribbean diaspora in the world.
Berlin - Lagos is a residency programme for young artists and curators from Berlin and Lagos initiated by the Goethe-Institut Lagos in cooperation with the Department for Art and Culture Berlin-Mitte, Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, SAVVY Contemporary and Arthouse Foundation Lagos.
With kind support of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Funds »Ausstellungsvergütungen«.
Performance
2018 — Gallery Wedding (Berlin, DE)