Ocean of Eros

Join Mela Closs, Samantha Sea Sea, and Angad (Angu) Singh for an evening of ambient and industrial soundscapes, movement, video, poetry, and interactive performance that play with eros and whimsy. Take off your shoes, lounge, and let your body and senses be stirred. There will be time to meet the artists, have a drink, hang out in an art installation, and explore Mela’s interactive altar where you can interpret the divinatory meaning of the shell you receive during her performance.

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Schedule
7:00 PM Doors
7:30-9:00 PM Performances (short breaks between performances)
$20 suggested donation at the door, cash, cc, or venmo

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About the Artis

Mela Closs (she/her, Brooklyn) is a musician and facilitator creating playful experiences grounded in imagination and healing. Her performances explore themes of spirituality, oceanic worlds, connection, and sovereignty. (Hang Up The Moon, Be The Ocean. Ocean of Eros.) She explores ambient drone-heavy soundscapes and a mix of beautiful and ugly vocals in Melangu, Theyya and solo music projects. She leads rituals that celebrate the cycles of the sun and moon rooted in ancestral folk traditions. She also gives private voice lessons with a focus on healing and expression. She loves creating community events that are grassroots, intimate, and joy-centered. If you cross her path, you are likely to go home with a rock, shell, or wisdom from the sea.

Samantha Sea Sea is a New York based, New York native performance artist who works with video, sound, movement, poetry and the human voice. Their work explores multiple themes such as inter generational hopes/traumas/joy, Afro Futurism, magical realism, mental health, Black spiritual traditions, and connection to water. She started working in performance in 2015 after participating in a series of ensemble performances directed by Monica Mirabile. Samantha has performed at Wild Project, Secret Project Robot, MoMA PS1, Essex Flowers, La Plaza Cultural Community Garden and Roulette Intermedium among many other spaces. Most recently she completed a residency at Otion Front Studio. In 2023 she started a pop up performance venue/curatorial project called irrelevent art space that showcases performance art, poetry, and music, and strived to create an environment where people could bring their young children to shows. This project, currently on hiatus, was inspired by Samantha’s experience of becoming a parent and realizing how few forward thinking family friendly venues existed in NYC.

Angad (Angu) Singh explores the paradoxical relationship between beatific and brutal impulses, giving voice to the dark regions of the psyche. Through semi-improvisation, his electronic music navigates between intention and intuition, unearthing ambivalent instincts of power, eros, and trance. With roots in heavy music, his latest project utilizes synthesizer, drum machine, and effects pedals to create rhythmic noise at once human and alien.