Olaiya Olayemi

ado (a remix of my name): a biomyth performance art piece (a work-in-progress showing)

ado (a remix of my name): a biomyth performance art piece combines text, movement, song, and visual art to explore the pains and pleasures of a blktranswomynartist. This spiritually and erotically charged story encourages its audience/witnesses to remix themselves so that they can remix the world.

Olaiya Olayemi is an artist who centers blk womyn in her works of art that explore love/sex/relationships/family/history/memory and radical joy/pleasure. she has performed at The Cabaret, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, JACK, AAA3A, The Wild Project, The Langston Hughes House, Starr Bar, and Mayday Space. she holds a bachelor of arts in english/creative writing (with a minor in african/black diaspora studies) from depaul university and a master of fine arts in creative writing from emerson college.