Devotional Circuits

with Adriana Blidaru, Yinka Elujoba, Shanti Escalante, Angie Sijun Lou, Geoffrey Mak, Journey Streams, and Simon Wu

Sunday, November 16, 3-5pm
Géza, 306 Maujer
Lu Yang, DOKU The Flow (still), 2024. Single-channel 4K video, 50:15 min. Courtesy the artist.
Organized in collaboration with Adriana Blidaru through her curatorial agency Living Content and presented in conjunction with Lu Yang’s exhibition DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe, Devotional Circuits is a workshop and reading in which six participants “write alongside” Lu Yang’s immersive worlds of spirituality, transcendence, queerness, and technological mysticism. The writers bring together a wide range of practices — from art criticism, curatorial writing, and narrative nonfiction to poetry, fiction, and diasporic storytelling — each grounded in critical explorations of identity, technology, and the sacred. Following a closed workshop, the evening opens to the public with readings that move between the poetic, narrative, and analytical. Featuring Simon Wu, Angie Sijun Lou, Geoffrey Mak, Journey Streams, Yinka Elujoba, and Shanti Escalante de Mattei.

Adriana Blidaru is a curator, writer, and cultural consultant, with experience designing and managing impactful exhibitions, public programs, and institutional events. She is Founder & Artistic Director of Living Content, a curatorial agency and registered 501©(3) in New York and Bucharest.

Yinka Elujoba is a Nigerian writer and art critic living in Brooklyn

Shanti Escalante De Mattei is a journalist and scholar based in Brooklyn. She is a former staff writer at ARTnews and is currently freelancing for outlets like WIRED, The Guardian, and The Art Newspaper. She is pursuing her PhD in Anthropology at NYU where her research focuses on crypto communities.

Angie Sijun Lou’s stories have appeared in BOMB, FENCE, Joyland, and elsewhere.

Geoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys, an essay collection published by Bloomsbury in April 2024. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Artforum, Frieze, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at Spike. He co-runs the reading and performance series Writing on Raving, which released an anthology with O/R Books this year.

Journey Streams is a writer, critic, and historian based in Brooklyn, NY.

Simon Wu is a writer and artist. His first book is Dancing On My Own.