• The Practice

    jaamil olawale kosoko’s interdisciplinary practice moves across performance, video, sculpture, poetry, installation, and ritual, exploring embodied memory, queer Black theory, emergence, and practices of rest and care.

  • What’s Happening Now

    Follow the performances, exhibitions, presentations, collaborations, and projects currently unfolding across the practice.

  • The Work

    From performance and film to installation, spoken word, and publication, explore the works that have shaped and continue to shape the practice.

  • Quantum Rest

    A central pillar of kosoko’s current research and creative methodology, Quantum Rest reframes rest as a generative, spiritual, and political practice.

  • Mapping the Afterlives of Performance

    What happens to a performance after the moment of its making? This project considers how creative work can be documented, preserved, remembered, and carried forward.

  • The Writing

    Poetry, books, essays, and other published works extend the questions and ideas moving through the practice.

  • Listen In

    Recorded conversations and reflections offer another way into the ideas, experiences, and exchanges surrounding the work.

  • There’s More to Discover

    Move through the wider body of creative work, from current projects to the archive, publications, and conversations.

  • Work With the Practice

    From creative development and curatorial projects to rest-centered gatherings and strategic support, jaamil works with artists, educators, cultural workers, and creative communities to develop ideas into meaningful practice.

Creative Partners

Text reading 'BOGLIASCO' on a black background
NYFA logo with black and orange text and a stylized film slate
Close-up of the FCA logo in gray letters
Green text on a black background reads 'SLAY THE BULLIES OF YOUR MIND' and 'LIVE' in a mirrored, upside-down arrangement.
The image features the YouTube logo next to the text 'YouTube' in dark colors.
Logo of the National Performance Network (NPN) featuring a stylized flame or figure above the text.
Logo of the New York City Office of the Brooklyn Borough President
American Express Leadership Academy logo with blue and white color scheme.
Pink and black logo with cursive text reading 'Too Hot for Summer'.
Logo of ADAMA, featuring blue text with a yellow sunburst icon.
WEX logo in black and white
Text that reads 'Philadelphia's Cultural Treasures' in bold orange letters.
Colorful text spelling 'HAG DON ELL' with a blue and green color scheme and black outlines.
Slamdance logo on a white background
Fingearts logo with stylized text
Logo with the text 'Cal
Princeton University logo featuring a shield with black and orange sections, a Latin motto banner, and the university name in bold letters.
Black circle with white crescent moon and small star on a black background
Close-up of a sign with the word GUGGENHEIM on it
Logo with the word 'MAPFUND' in yellow and blue lettering on a green and blue background
Large white letter B with the word BENNINGTON written vertically on a brown background.
Logo for 'The Power Center for Arts & Heritage' with overlapping purple and pink geometric shapes.
Pearl Arts logo with red and orange text
NCC Akron logo with stylized letters NCC and Akron in smaller text
Logo of the William F. P. P. Foundation with stylized text and a horizontal line.
Wave Farm logo with concentric circles and text
Brooklyn Arts Council logo with black text on white background
Logo of Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
EMPAC logo in white text on a black background