BLACK TRASH: Sacred Melodramas

The impetus for BLACK TRASH: Sacred Melodramas is an experiment in time travel and an exploration of American pulp fiction.  In the future, when our culture as we know it has been transformed into something ancient and unfamiliar, scholars will attempt to piece together our modern existence.  I believe that because items of vernacular culture are populous in nature, these will be the texts/ images/objects that survive the requisite millennia to be studied.  I think this time passage will create a different understanding of these artifacts, making them sacred objects of a dead culture.  Through  my performances I am attempting to fast forward this process, morphing ghettoized fiction  into fragmented chants and incantations.   

"Guuuuurl, that bitch D. fucked S. up!  Nigga had his nose wide open for her ass, but she always tryna get in his business.  Asking questions- don't she know the less you know, the less you have to snitch to the cops with?  Well, anyway S. got turned out, so he be telling her everything! Dumb ass... 

D. done told these muthfuckas how S. moves, who his connect is, and the when and where of his last drop off!  The Jakes got 'em, now he got a life bid.  All over some pussy."

Source Material: Old Testament/ Judges 16  (King James Version)

Ultimately , what are myths and parables, but hyper-meta-real melodramas?

Enjoy the video 'psalms' below...

CLEO_Intro(1) from Kenya Robinson on Vimeo.


Beyond Heaven(2) from Kenya Robinson on Vimeo.