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Title: "So you got yourself back" Confronting the topics of Violence, Power & Greed in this performance Lockwood & Oyewole make a correlation between the individuals experience with abuse through power & money and how that can be equated to how people as a society are abused by those with power and money. 10/16/2011
Bio: Melissa Lockwood
An Interdisciplinary Artist working with Conceptual Art as a medium. She draws from her personal experience creating parallels to larger societal issues. Confronting the topics of Violence, Power & Greed.
She embarks on creating perceptions of big picture power cycle issues through the use of her individual experience. Her work strives for transformation in both participant & observer. Her work is in essence to exemplify the use of life experience as a catalyst for change through performance art.
With an MFA in Performance Art from the University of Iowa, She works from a point of person specific expression. Melissa has shown internationally with solo and group Performance work. Her Artwork is focused on Human Rights & Environmental Issues.
Online:
http://www.iqtest-nyc.com
iqtest@iqtest-nyc.com
Bio: Yinka Oyewole
An enigma, an anomaly, an exception to the rule, Yinka Oyewole exists as much in spite of the world as a part of it – and the same could be said of his band SABATTA. Born in Romford, Essex, UK of Nigerian parentage, educated in the North of Scotland and resident in South London, Yinka’s life has been nothing if not eventful!
Originally having dreamt of being a fine artist Yinka switched to music early because he felt he could reach more people than ‘putting work in a gallery’ – now he’s back! Musically Yinka was exposed to so many forms of music: rock, hip-hop, hi-life, Afrobeat and he calls the music his band produces – Grunge Soul! A style that challenges musical genre stereotyping.
Yinka is currently in New York doing shows with his band SABATTA playing songs from their new self-titled album.
Online:
www.sabatta.net
www.facebook.com/sabatta
www.twitter.com/sabatta
http://www.youtube.com/sabatta
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