CURATORIAL WORK
kosoko was an inaugural graduating member of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University and has held producing and curatorial positions at New York Live Arts, 651 Arts, and The Watermill Center, among others. From 2017-19, they were a Princeton Arts Fellow at Princeton University, co-curating “Black Poetry: A Conference,” (2019) among other endeavors.
PORTAL FOR(E) THE EPHEMERAL PASSAGE (2022)
Building on previous research involving the intergenerational passage of feminist Black knowledge, queer theory, sacred rituals of intimacy and wellness, kosoko has curated an exhibition centering the radical interior lifeworlds and spatial cosmologies of Black presence and the altered visual legacies and landscapes they occupy in their wake.
BLACK JOY SESSIONS
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
The Black Joy Sessions is a participant-driven event. Together we experience and reflect on the critical embodiment of Black Joy in culture, opening up a stimulating and fluid space for creativity, pop up performance and discussion. The Black Joy Sessions aims to bridge the gaps between academia and community, initiating empowering community-led convenings that promote ambitious thinking and critical engagement, creating an exciting and nurturing space for everyone involved outside the gaze of whiteness.
BLACK POETRY:
A CONFERENCE (2019)
Black Poetry: A Conference was a truly historic international and inter-generational gathering. Over the span of 3 days, more than 40 black poets came together to read from their work and consider the most urgent social, political and artistic questions of our time.
PAST WORK
2019 - Black Poetry: A Conference co-curated with Tracy K. Smith and Joshua Kotin at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
2018 - Reclamations! Lectures in Black Feminist Performance, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
2010 to 2016 - anonymous bodies art collective, Co-Director, (Philadelphia, PA & New York, NY)
2015 to 2016 - Viewpoints Series and reACT Series, Manager of Public Programs, Watermill Center (Water Mill, NY)
2015 - Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine, Bushwick Starr (New York, NY)
2015 - Legible Illegible, Movement Research Spring Festival (New York, NY)
2015 - Dancing While Black Performance Series, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (New York, NY)
2015 - Classically Black Humanities Series, Curator and Producer, 651 Arts, (New York, NY)
2014 - Live Ideas Festival: James Baldwin This Time!, New York Live Arts (New York, NY)
2014 - Black Male Revisited, Danspace Project (New York, NY)
2012 to 2014 - Live Ideas Festival, Producer, New York Live Arts (New York, NY)
2012 - JUXTaPOSE Performance Series, Studio 34 (Philadelphia, PA)
2011 - American Chameleons, The Painted Bride (Philadelphia, PA)
2011 - The Gemini Show: An Evening of Darling Duets, fidget space (Philadelphia, PA)
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