MISSION
kosoko performance studio (kps) is a groundbreaking new media performance studio dedicated to advancing queer Black histories through socially engaged performance, healing education, new media experimentation, and creative facilitation. As the producing team for artist, poet, educator, and curator jaamil olawale kosoko, our mission is to push boundaries, challenge norms, and contribute to the cultural evolution through powerful and thought-provoking artistic experiences.
VISION
kosoko performance studio conjures and crafts perpetual modes of freedom, healing, and care when/where/however possible. The company envisions new possibilities for recasting visual performance technologies through the intersectional use of curatorial, poetic, and improvisational methods of choreology and new media experimentation.
Creative Values
The kosoko performance studio practice is in constant dialogue with history's role in the contemporary moment. Its team of creative collaborators lean into their questions, trauma, and joy as a way to create environments of performance that hold productive modes of complexity and discomfort while also centering themes of care and healing. kosoko performance studio is deeply concerned with experimentation that combines Black and queer theoretical, literary and spiritual lineages with biographical and bodily knowledge. A core system of inquiry questions the distinction between theatricality, reality, and our collective erotic connection to devices of digitality.
