NSA : LIBATION - CANCELED

An alchemical ritual performance honouring the ancestral lines of West African performance artist Janina Nana Yaa featuring fluid vocals, channelled movement and poetry.

The first of our SUNTIME performances is a rich and layered ritual that calls for a deeper relationship to ourselves as ancestors. Janina Nana Yaa and their collaborators, Katharine Losi, WAIWHAI - Larsen Taylor, and Eliza Vawdrey-Roy combine astral sonics with anciently felt movement. Flesh and flesh, blood and blood, sweat and sweat. An alchemical offering that draws witnesses together in communion.

May our perception become like water. Water, blood, liquid, Nsa. Never running out. An infinite and eternal connection.

CANCELED

THE ARTISTS

  • Janina Nana Yaa

    ARTIST/ CREATOR

    Janina Nana Yaa's creations interweave deep ritualistic connection to their West African ancestry through fluid vocals, channelled movement and poetry. Janina aims to cultivate spells and space that harvest a deeper relationship to ourselves as Ancestor and Land; demonstrating the fluid embrace between all things and the healing that can take place if we allow it.

    IG: @janina.nana.yaa

  • WAIWHAI

    ARTIST

    WAIWHAI aka WhyFi. is the sonic moniker of Larsen Winiata Tito-Taylor (of Ngā Puhi/Ngāti Whātua/Tainui descent) – a multi-disciplinary artist from Tangiteroria, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Over the course of ten days during a national lockdown in Aotearoa, Larsen created the album Keep your Distance by Virtual Shadow Ensemble – bringing together a who’s who of young New Zealand jazz, spoken word and electronic music artists. In his music, Larsen often creates with a ‘stream of consciousness’ approach, recording songs in the first take and resisting definition and boundaries. Today, he cites his primary influences as his friends – a circle of creators that inform and shape each other’s work - and ancestors of blood and spirit – whether through whānau and chiefs, or sonic ancestors inspiring soul expression such as Sun Ra.

    IG: @whyfisucks

  • Katharine Losi

    ARTIST

    Katharine Losi’s social art practice is an evolving ecosystem of Moana healing methodologies, spirituality, community engagement, and is grounded in unconditional love. By confronting cultural norms, societal expectations and systematic oppressions; Katharine Losi uses her lives experiences to create an alternative way of operating and living in our everyday.

  • Eliza Vawdrey-Roy

    ARTIST

    Eliza Vawdrey-Roy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Eliza explores dualities, complexities and nuances of identity, belonging, nature and how we relate to self, other, environment and the collective. Her practice involves painting, drawing, writing, film making and activation, where she cultivates and fosters vā/ space for healing, reclamation and authentic embodiment. Her work is influenced by lived experiences, her mixed heritage (Sāmoan, English, French) as well as intuition, an inner remembering and the ability to dream.

    IG: @elizavawdreyroy