Next year, Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) will present Circuit City, her first theatrical work, as part of High Pressure Fire Service, a festival organized by Philadelphia's Fringe Arts.
Circuit City is a futuristic exploration— part musical, part choreopoem, part play— of public/private ownership, housing, and technology set in a living room in a corporate-owned apartment complex. Framed by Ayewa’s bold poetry and bolstered by new Moor Mother music performed live by Irreversible Entanglements and the Circuit City Band, Circuit City is an afrofuturist song cycle for our current climate.
Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a musician, poet, artist, and activist based in Philadelphia. Since the release of her 2016 full length, Fetish Bones, Ayewa has toured extensively — performing at festivals, clubs, and underground arts venues throughout the world. As a visual and soundscape artist, her work has been presented at The Kitchen NYC, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, and the Hirshhorn Gallery, among others. She is the co-founder of Rockers! Philly, an event series and festival focused on marginalized artists, and Black Quantum Futurism Collective, a literary and artistic collaboration with Rasheedah Philips (The Afrofuturist Affair). In addition to her solo work as Moor Mother, Ayewa is also a vocalist and collaborator in the groups Irreversible Entanglements, 700 Bliss, and Moor/Jewelry.
Circuit City
Written by Camae Ayewa
Music by Moor Mother
June 20—22, 2019
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, December 4.
High Pressure Fire Service performances take place in the FringeArts Theater
140 N. Columbus Blvd.
