Fracture|Ritual
A TIMEBODY HUMANIFESTO
A durational performance-installation by jaamil olawale kosoko
How do bodies remember the places that have shaped them?
What does it mean to gather when the world around us is fragmenting?
Fracture|Ritual is a durational performance and installation that examines the embodied conditions of democracy at a moment of acute national strain. Developed across multiple sites, the project responds to escalating climate disasters, democratic erosion, racialized state violence, and the normalization of authoritarian rhetoric. It investigates how these structural pressures register in the body—through exhaustion, hyper-vigilance, grief, fragmentation, and collective numbness.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Fracture|Ritual is a performance project exploring how ceremony is created, carried, and transformed through the body, memory, grief, spirituality, and human connection. Building on research developed at multiple sites including the Helsinki International Artist Program (HIAP) the project will grow through sight-based attunement, conversation, archival research, and community exchange. I will explore how personal acts of reflection can open into collective experiences of memory, transition, presence, and belonging. These encounters will inform the movement, text, sound, objects, and spatial language of the work. Rather than reproducing existing religious or ceremonial practices, I am interested in listening to how ritual functions within everyday life and allowing these exchanges to reshape my own embodied questions.
Composing Conditions in the Wake
We occupy a "wake of unrest" where ecological grief and social fragmentation require new technologies of survival
Urgency: Reclaiming the right to exist beyond extractive systems.
Method: Using the "technology of slowing" to refuse the speed that flattens radical imagination.
Confirmed Institutional Collaborations
