SERAFINE1369 (previously Last Yearz Interesting Negro) is the London based artist, dancer, writer and facilitator, Jamila Johnson-Small. SERAFINE1369 works with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. They make offerings of dark, jagged, tender, meditative atmospheres and landscapes through performance, installation, sound, video and text that elaborate on their research into bodies, movement and dance as a tool for divination.
SERAFINE1369’s work with darkness, voice, movement, overwhelm and bass invites forms that emerge and mutate through the live unfolding of the tension between things that produce meaning, disturbing the fiction of linear time. The work is an unfolding decoding of messages from an oracular body, on personal/structural/symptomatic/somatic/psychic levels, towards making spaces of sanctuary that might hold the complex, multiple and contradictory, spaces that consider movement and transformation as inevitable.
