Park Nights 2026 presents Ebun Sodipo and Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s Atlantic Cruises: The Sex Tour, a journey through histories of gender, sexual dimorphism, fetish and the libidinal economy of race.
Visual artist and writer Ebun Sodipo and Rosa-Johan Uddoh present a new iteration of Atlantic Cruises (2018-ongoing), their collaborative performance rooted in Black feminist study. Speculating on the drives behind attacks and failures experienced by Black, trans, and queer communities, Sodipo and Uddoh’s polyphonic audio-visual conversation maps new languages and tools to speak about the body and the past for Black people of the future.
The performance continues ideas explored in Ebun Sodipo’s essay, “I Guess I Gotta Help Myself”, published in the Serpentine Reader.
Ebun Sodipo (b. 1993, London, UK) is an artist and writer based in London whose work is guided by Black feminist study and spans sound, performance, text, installation, video, and sculpture. Using collage and fabulation, she explores real and imagined narratives of Black trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present and future. In doing this, Sodipo fills in historical gaps to create moments of archival pleasure for Black trans people. Sodipo’s work has been presented at Frieze London, Cubitt, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, SHOWStudio, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s ‘How To Sleep Faster,’ Auto Italia, Institute for Contemporary Arts, Tate Britain, Texte zur Kunst, Bergen Kunsthall, Wasafiri, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Camden Arts Centre.
Rosa-Johan Uddoh is an artist working across performance, film, installation, writing and print. Drawing on Black feminist practice, archival research, nostalgia and humour, her work explores the role of popular culture in shaping Black identities. She considers how different forms of Black performance are encouraged at different moments, the limits and consequences of ‘representation’, and how alternative scripts might offer possibilities for freedom. Her work creates encounters that are at once deeply felt and politically charged. Her work has been presented at Pioneer Works NY, Bergen Kunsthall, Tate Modern, Women’s Art Collection, Iniva, Focal Point Gallery and Bluecoat. Rosa was the Amant NY Researcher in Residence 2025 and the Stuart Hall Library Resident 2020. Her book Practice Makes Perfect was published by Book Works and Focal Point Gallery in 2021.
Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, with Hanna Girma, Senior Editor and Curator of Editorial Projects, and Liz Stumpf, Assistant Exhibitions Curator
