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CURRENT PROJECTS
we come to collect: a flirtation with capitalism
August 26 - September 27th @ the Flea Theater
Ooh, you feel that on your neck? That tantalizing whisper? That’s capitalism, and she wants you bad.
OBIE award winning artist Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox answer capitalism’s sire call in an evening of hysterical undertakings. The world premier of we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism, instigated by the artistic collective the blackening, debunks the alluring tale of American economic might weaving stand-up comedy, performance art, and the carnivalesque. You know you can’t resist.
again, the watercarriers: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree
Preview: September 19 at 3pm
Performances: September 20-21 at 3pm
What is the cost of utopia?
After delivering an earth-rattling prophecy, an infamous root woman and her loyal devotees vanish into a river, sparking rumors of a triple suicide. In truth, theonewhohasnoname, quiethandssometimesclapping and lilbigsis abscond to a half-imagined, half-remembered hush arbor. There, supernatural forces initiate them into the daughters of ellum, a secret society of earth-workers dedicated to preserving the ways of the ancient ones. All is bliss until the trio’s decision to abandon the faithless begins to haunt them. Will demands of home force them to return and risk becoming salt or will they choose eternal life and relish in a new realm of their own conjuring?
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.
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?
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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