A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING

The multidemsional call to collective imagination, expression and liberation in which the divine femine takes center stage.

a GOD OF HER OWN MAKING X LA LOUVER

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive spatial opera performed by JOJO ABOT accompanied by intricately woven layers of voices, dancers, and mesmerizing visuals. This performance is the enactment of a new kind of ritual, one that leads to a trance-like realm in which the senses awaken, and portals open to the divine. This performance coincides with Frieze Week Los Angeles 2024. Presented in partnership with Meyer Sound Labs, ARUP and Cykik.

-SOLO EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH-

A multimedia experience created by JOJO ABOT. Consisting of sculpture, textiles, film, spatial sound, painting, and performance, A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING brings together manifold aspects of JOJO ABOT’s ever-expanding oeuvre. Unlimited by categorical confines of genre and medium and enhanced by three discrete activations, this exhibition focuses on the transformative and sacred power of the divine feminine, inspiring conversations around collective elevation and engagement with our spiritual selves. Presented in partnership with LA Louver Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

-WEAVING SACRED FUTURES-

Discussion led by JOJO ABOT with artist and abolitionist Patrisse Cullors, cultural leader Michelle Mitchell, and artist Alison Saar. Weaving Sacred Futures explores the role of creatives, leaders and world builders in creating spaces for free thought, limitless expression, and communal solidarity. This discussion will delve into the potential we have to serve as vessels who channel consciously from the inner/outer spirit realm for the birthing of harmonious and life-affirming futures. It invites us into imagining intuitive and divine feminine-centered systems as foundational elements for sustainable world-building.

 LIVE AT REDCAT (Los Angeles)

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive spatial opera performed by interdisciplinary artist, vocalist and composer JOJO ABOT. Accompanied by voices, dancers, and mesmerizing visuals, JOJO ABOT explores the power of new and ancient technologies for collective healing by drawing from her own heritage as an Ewe woman from West Africa. From these influences and histories, a new kind of ritual is born, one that leads to a trance-like realm in which the senses awaken and portals open to the divine.

LIVE AT NATIONAL SAWDUST (NEW YORK)

JOJO ABOT and National Sawdust are thrilled to share with you a world premiere of A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING, as part of National Sawdust’s Season 8 Opening Weekend.

A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive opera in which the human vessel serves as a primary instrument and conduit for sound as a healing pathway to the divine. Incorporating both old and new technologies, woman and machine come together in sacred co-creation. 

2018 Artist-in-Residence and acclaimed interdisciplinary artist JOJO ABOT returns with the debut of this immersive and otherworldly experience, featuring musician and restorative arts devotee esperanza spalding. Created, directed, and composed by JOJO ABOT during a long season of uncertainty, separation, and global unrest, A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING builds on JOJO ABOT’s exploration of spirituality, and incorporates spalding’s lineages and practices of restorative music.

In A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING, JOJO ABOT— an ewe woman from Ghana, West Africa, references indigenous practices in which the feminine is a conduit for the divine holding space as a portal and point of intercession for all mankind. For the first time ever, National Sawdust's Meyer Sound spatial sound system serves as a tool for inducing a state of expansive presence, awareness, and ascension while amplifying a call to (re)turn to an ancient self that is in unity with all of creation. In this one-of-a-kind performance, JOJO ABOT and Spalding invite you to tap back into a deep love for nature and each other so we can imagine and dare make manifest more harmonious, nourishing and intentional futures.

Program Credits: Created, Directed, and composed by JOJO ABOT Live Performers: JOJO ABOT (vocals) & esperanza spalding (vocals, electric bass, double bass) Recorded vocals: JOJO ABOT, esperanza spalding, ​​Estère Choreography: JOJO ABOT Spatial Sound Design and Live Mixing: Garth MacAleavey, JOJO ABOT Spatial Sound Consultation by Steve Ellison, Meyer Sounds Sound engineers: Garth MacAleavey, Steve Ellison, Konstantin Ladurner p/k/a “Kontent,” and Kyrian Okane; Creative Producer: Nicole Merritt Chari Costumes: JOJO ABOT, House of Aama, NG2_Studios