STROKE
An evening of performance, sound, and embodied experimentation

Emerging from One Stroke at a Time by WPA artist-in-residence Lorenzo Holder (@lorenzo_holder) and Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins (@vicenziomd), STROKE brings together artists working across sound, voice, movement, and live performance to explore interruption, adaptation, and the body’s capacity to relearn expression.

Through intimate and participatory works, the program reflects on how gesture, rhythm, memory, and communication persist and transform in the aftermath of rupture.

LINEUP

5PM — Jon Skygge
Spirit survive, drift along, waving goodbye, I carry on
A live-streamed participatory performance unfolding through grief, memory, and collective witnessing.

6PM — Lorenzo Holder (@lorenzo_holder) & Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins (@vicenziomd)
A collaborative performance centered on resurrection, recovery, and intergenerational transformation.

6:30PM — Ennis R. Hodgson (@ennisrhodgson)
A performance moving through sound, rhythm, collage, and spiritual response as forms of embodied listening and transformation.

7PM — Liveinmydreamstonight (@liveinmydreamstonight)
A live altar activation centered on invocation, meditation, purification, and ancestral communion through sound and performance.

7:30PM — Amanda Deluzio
Opera, modular synthesis, sequencers, vocoders, and experimental sound collide in a live performance where the voice is fragmented and reassembled in real time.

Presented by @fevrfestival x @wpadc

Artists Bio / Posts:

1. Jon Skygge

In Spirit Survive, Jon Skygge presents a live-streamed performance shaped by the recent loss of his father and the accelerating emotional pressures of contemporary life. Streaming from abroad while tending to matters related to his father’s estate, the work moves through grief, memory, exhaustion, and overstimulation, transforming personal mourning into a shared and unstable encounter across digital space.

Skygge’s practice often blurs autobiography, performance, and constructed identity, drawing from lived experience, art history, and social observation to challenge fixed expectations around contemporary art and selfhood. Moving between vulnerability and confrontation, his performances place emotional intensity in direct contact with public perception and participation.

For STROKE, Spirit Survive unfolds as a rapidly shifting meditation on loss, acceleration, and survival, where private experience becomes collective atmosphere through live transmission, repetition, and escalating tempo. Jon Skygge will be performing at 5PM

2. Lorenzo Piero Holder III (@lorenzo_holder) and Vicenzio Holder-Perkins, MD MPH  (@vicenziomd)

Lorenzo Holder and Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins present a collaborative performance emerging from One Stroke at aTime,anongoing intergenerational project exploring recovery, care, embodiment, and artistic transformation after stroke. Rooted in their shared history of making art together across decades, the work moves through performance, ritual, gesture, and sound to reflect on the body’s capacity to adapt, remember, and reconfigure itself after interruption.

Drawing from personal experience, medical recovery, and collaborative art-making, the performance considers resurrection not as return, but as continual transformation — where communication, movement, and presence are rebuilt through relation, repetition, and care. Lorenzo Holder and Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins perform at 6PM.

3. Ennis R. Hodgson (@ennisrhodgson)

Ennis R. Hodgson  is a collage-based printmaker based in Silver Spring, Maryland whose practicemoves through printmaking,sound, memory, and spiritual response. Drawing from black musical traditions, Hodgson uses collage and layered visual language to explore how sound carries emotional, cultural, and ancestral resonance.

A graduate of the Corcoran School of Arts & Design at George Washington University and Morgan State University, Hodgson developed his printmaking practice at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. Across exhibitions and collaborative projects, his work examines the relationship between rhythm, abstraction, and spiritual embodiment.

During the performance evening STROKE, Hodgson contributes to a program centered on sound, interruption, and re-learning, where performance emerges as a space for gesture, listening, and transformation. Ennis R. Hodgson performs at 6:30PM.

4. Liveinmydreamstonight (@Liveinmydreamstonight)

Liveinmydreamstonight is a singer, photographer, and performance artist whose practice moves through ritual, memory, andspiritual invocation. Working across sound, image, and embodied performance, her work creates intimate spaces of reflection that blur the boundaries between meditation, protection, and ancestral communion.

For Speculum Portuum, Liveinmydreams activates the installation through a live altar interaction centered on invocation, purification, and dream states. Accompanied by her own live vocals and the playing of her single, the performance transforms the installation into a living vigil—one that channels care as both a spiritual and intergenerational practice. Through spoken intention, gesture, sound, and sustained presence, the activation moves through acts of ancestral invocation, banishment of the evil eye, meditation, and purification, positioning the altar as a site of healing, passage, and rest. Liveinmydreamstonight performs at 7PM.

5. Amanda Deluzio

Amanda Deluzio is an interdisciplinary artist, performance artist, and opera singer based in Washington, DC whose practice moves across photography, sculpture, painting, digital media, and experimental opera.

Working through themes of identity, vulnerability, and memory, her performances transform voice into something both intimate and unstable — balancing emotional honesty with technological distortion.

For STROKE, Deluzio brings together opera, modular synthesizers, sequencers, effects pedals, and vocoders in a live performance where classical tradition collides with contemporary sound experimentation. Her work pushes against fixed forms of expression, creating hybrid sonic environments where the voice becomes fragmented, amplified, and reassembled in real time. Amanda Deluzio performs at 7:30PM.

ACCESS NOTES: 

This is a fully in-person event. We strive to welcome visitors of all abilities and are committed to transparency about the physical access conditions at the gallery: The ramp leading into the exhibition space does not meet current ADA slope standards and may be difficult or unsafe to navigate independently for visitors using wheelchairs, mobility devices, or those who need gentler gradients. 

If you require further accommodation during your visit, please email sblair@wpadc.org as far in advance as possible. Accommodations will be provided to the best of our capacities.