it’s an honor to be here, here i am an honor to be: a mad man ︎
Dia Chelsea, New York
October 2025
it’s an honor to be here, here I am an honor to be: a mad man (2025) is a new participatory text, sound, and performance piece that draws on both non-Western understandings of madness and traditions of invocation in the Black church. Writer, performer, and visual artist Funto Omojola invites the audience to gather for a moment of collaborative processing.
Designed to be a space of permission and consideration at a time when social realities are filled with breakage and rupture, participants are encouraged to move, sing, recite, and envision other ways of being in response to the performance score.
Dia Chelsea, New York
October 2025
it’s an honor to be here, here I am an honor to be: a mad man (2025) is a new participatory text, sound, and performance piece that draws on both non-Western understandings of madness and traditions of invocation in the Black church. Writer, performer, and visual artist Funto Omojola invites the audience to gather for a moment of collaborative processing.
Designed to be a space of permission and consideration at a time when social realities are filled with breakage and rupture, participants are encouraged to move, sing, recite, and envision other ways of being in response to the performance score.
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2220 Arts + Archives, CA
2024
Light Field presents: Expanded Poetry
An evening with five sets of cross-disciplinary performances and readings, featuring new works by Will Alexander, Jessika Kenney, and Eyvind Kang; Tongo Eisen-Martin; Syd Staiti and Jake Lichter; Funto Omojola; and Samuel Breslin and Brendan Glasson.
an open mouth/an open stomach screaming through a machine ︎
FIELDNOTES
2022
On a Dundun drum, I play Yoruba translations of medical records that document the surgical procedure that led to my subsequent chronic diagnosis. The initial medical records have not been altered except through translation.
The Dundun, which imitates the Yoruba tonal language, is an hourglass-shaped talking drum with strings connected to the two surfaces of the drum that change the tone of the sounds the instrument produces.
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