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Quantum Rest - A practice for slowing down, listening deeply and reclaiming rest as creative method.
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“Rest. Craft. Conjure was an incredibly generative experience that sparked new dreams and a vision for my long term project, Praxis for Paralysis. jaamil’s deep care and honesty in curating and holding space made the residency a truly transformative time of rest and creative renewal.””
What You’ll Find Inside
REST AS PRACTICE
Reflections on rest as a political, cultural, and embodied practice rooted in care, survival, and collective memory.
REFUSING URGENCY
Language and frameworks for stepping out of extraction, productivity culture, and constant acceleration, without guilt or performance.
EMBODIED REFLECTIONS
Grounding prompts that invite listening, sensation, and presence, designed to be returned to slowly and without pressure.
CARE AS INFRASTRUCTURE
Care-based approaches for artists and cultural workers navigating sustainability, legacy, and long-term creative life.
Quantum Rest
is an offering rooted in care, slowness, and sustainability. It invites readers to step away from urgency and productivity culture and into a more spacious relationship with time, memory, and the body.
This work is not about optimization or self-improvement. It is about permission. Permission to pause, to breathe, and to consider rest as a necessary condition for survival, creativity, and legacy, especially for Black, queer, and global majority communities.
This digital book is offered freely as part of an ongoing practice. In exchange, you are invited to stay in conversation with the work through occasional reflections, practices, and invitations from Jaamil.
“...prolific Nigerian-American poet, curator, choreographer and performance artist’s new show explores the erotic fear associated with the black male body.”
About jaamil
jaamil olawale kosoko is a performance artist, writer, and cultural strategist whose practice centers care, rest, and Black queer futurity. Their work explores memory, embodiment, and archives as living systems, asking how we might move more slowly, more intentionally, and with greater responsibility to one another.
Across performance, facilitation, and research-driven gatherings, jaamil creates spaces that resist extraction and urgency, positioning rest as a necessary and collective practice rather than a personal luxury. Their work is deeply rooted in lineage, community, and lived experience, guided by the belief that care is infrastructure and legacy is something we actively build.
Their practice spans live performance, writing, and educational offerings, continually evolving toward sustainable, behind-the-scenes systems that support artists, cultural workers, and communities in imagining more rested futures.
Press Reviews.
“ ...Kosoko’s physical struggle allows audience members to contemplate both the physical and emotional battles that accompany embodiment. Kosoko alludes to suicide when a doll falls face-first off of a table, which represents the ultimate escape of the body; however, Kosoko seems to advocate against this option by displaying his body struggling, thriving, and surviving during his wake work amongst the deaths that he illuminates. ”
“ ...Kosoko’s work is unique because it both particularizes and contextualizes identity. He shares personal content from to his late mother and his father, such as his father’s last voicemail. These moments surface as glimpses into his own particular journey in (re)communing with them. Kosoko is also concerned with contextualizing racial, gender, and sexual identities.”
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