Park Nights 2026 presents Ebun Sodipo’s Atlantic Cruises: The Sex Tour, a journey through histories of sexual dimorphism, fetish and the libidinal economy of race.
Visual artist and writer Ebun Sodipo presents a new iteration of Atlantic Cruises (2018-ongoing), a performance rooted in Black feminist study. Speculating on the drives behind attacks and failures experienced by Black, trans, and queer communities, Sodipo’s polyphonic audio-visual conversation maps new languages and tools to speak about the body and the past for Black trans people of the future.
The performance continues ideas explored in her 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.
Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, with Hanna Girma, Senior Editor and Curator of Editorial Projects, and Liz Stumpf, Assistant Exhibitions Curator
