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CURRENT PROJECTS
(chrysalis: activation 4)
April 5th, 8:30pm at FringeArts
The (chrysalis: activations) unfolds as a hybrid media performance project offering an intimate glimpse into the transformative limbo where what is seen and what vanishes intertwine. This live art experiment putting the artist’s creative laboratory on view. In collaboration with movement artist Song Aziza Tucker and lighting designer LD DeArmon, this work navigates the delicate thresholds of being and non-being, hypervisibility and erasure. The work explores themes of memory, Black futures, queer archival strategies, and ecological grief.
VONCENA’S SPELL
Voncena’s Spell is a performance exploring memory, Black futures, queer histories, and ecological grief. Set aboard the spacecraft Voncena in a near-future galaxy, an artificially intelligent being – named after the artist’s deceased mother – awakens. Through choreography, video installation, and poetry, the performance asks: How can we transform the multi-generational legacy of extraction and surveillance into a thriving, abundant coexistence for all?
The (chrysalis) Archives
An exhibition incorporating video installation, photographic imagery, sculpture, and performance. The project includes past works including the film Chameleon (A Visual Album), three-channel video and installation Syllabus for Black Love, and fabricated sculptural works and images. The work explores metamorphosis, intergenerational knowledge, blood memory, negative space, and the environmental grief that lingers in the aftermath of the living gesture.
BLACK BODY AMNESIA
Blending poetry and memoir, conversation and performance theory, Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts enlivens a personal archive of visual and verbal offerings written and organized by jaamil olawale kosoko.
ABOUT
JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO
jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent originally from Detroit, MI. jaamil’s work in performance is rooted in embodied ritual practice, poetics, Black critical studies, and queer theories of the body as a means to conjure and craft perpetual modes of freedom, healing, and care when/where/however possible.
ENGAGEMENTS
Work with jaamil in group settings and privately
CREATIVE COACHING
Creative coaching and energy reading
(individual sessions)
RESTSHOPS
Remote and in-person workshops for creative and professional development
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
jaamil is an independent curator having created hybrid exhibitions, conferences, social gatherings in both the US and EU.
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