House of the Lorde

House of the Lorde is an artist-led studio and ongoing practice founded by Po’Chop (with Tiff Beatty), emerging from Po’Chop’s performance, research, and study-based work rooted in Black feminist praxis. The space exists as a site for embodied inquiry where movement, reading, ritual, and gathering are treated as methods of creative research. House of the Lorde holds the questions that animate Po’Chop’s live work, including how we survive, remember, and make meaning within our bodies, and offers a sustained environment for experimentation, repetition, care, and collective thinking. It is both a home for community practice and a generative site that feeds Po’Chop’s performances, writings, and ongoing artistic investigations.

At House of the Lorde, movement classes, study groups, performances, and informal gatherings function as modes of practice rather than discrete offerings. These moments create space for people to come into relationship with their bodies, with shared texts, and with one another through repetition, curiosity, and care. This commitment to sustained inquiry extends through initiatives such as the Eros Artist Fellowship, which supports artists working at the intersection of embodiment, erotic power, and Black feminist thought. The studio serves as a site where rest and rigor coexist, where collective presence is essential to creative survival, and where what unfolds remains responsive rather than fixed, shaped by those who enter and by the ongoing questions the practice continues to hold.