Thalassophilia

Sunday, Aug 30

7:00pm – 8:00pm

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Thalassophilia is a site-specific, ocean-themed beach performance featuring Mela The Siren and Samantha Sea Sea. Performances will take place by or in the ocean. Artists explore themes around water, sensuality, oceanic mystery, ritual, and divination. The performance is at 7pm on the jetty. A pin will be sent to Partiful guests an hour before the performance starts. After the performance, you are welcome to join Mela and friends for a sunset dinner and drinks on the Rockaway Hotel rooftop bar! Artist Bios Mela Closs (she/her) is a musician and facilitator creating playful experiences grounded in imagination and healing. Her performances explore themes of spirituality, oceanic worlds, connection, and sovereignty. (Siren Song, Hang Up The Moon, Be The Ocean, Ocean of Eros.) She explores ambient drone-heavy soundscapes and a mix of beautiful and ugly vocals in Zelenaya and solo music projects. She is a Voice Ritualist, using voice and ritual as a path towards healing and transformation. She loves creating community events that are grassroots, intimate, and joy-centered. If you cross her path, you are likely to go home with a rock, shell, or wisdom from the sea. Samantha Sea Sea is a New York based, New York native performance artist who works with video, sound, movement, poetry and the human voice. Their work explores multiple themes such as inter generational hopes/traumas/joy, Afro Futurism, magical realism, mental health, Black spiritual traditions, and connection to water. She started working in performance in 2015 after participating in a series of ensemble performances directed by Monica Mirabile. Samantha has performed at Wild Project, Secret Project Robot, MoMA PS1, Essex Flowers, La Plaza Cultural Community Garden and Roulette Intermedium among many other spaces. Most recently she completed a residency at Otion Front Studio. In 2023 she started a pop up performance venue/curatorial project called irrelevent art space that showcases performance art, poetry, and music, and strived to create an environment where people could bring their young children to shows. This project, currently on hiatus, was inspired by Samantha’s experience of becoming a parent and realizing how few forward thinking family friendly venues existed in NYC.