//shrouded\\
A Living Syllabus for Remembrance.
A Poetic Sculpture and Ceremony by jaamil olawale kosoko
The Radical Inquiry
What does it take to live inside an inheritance that was never meant to sustain you, and still refuse disappearance?
This is not a question to be answered. It is a condition to be entered.
You are not positioned outside the work.
You are already inside its field.
Your looking is not neutral.
Your presence is not passive.
To witness here is to participate in the redistribution of attention, care, and risk.
Body as Archive
//shrouded\\ operates on a fundamental premise: the body does not represent history. It carries it.
Memory is not recalled. It is activated.
Lineage is not narrated. It is transmitted.
The performers do not illustrate ideas. They move within accumulations of lived and inherited experience shaped by Black queer temporalities.
Time folds. Past and present co-exist without resolution.
The body becomes a site where:
Displacement is held without closure
Resistance is practiced without spectacle
Transformation remains ongoing
This is not a performance about memory.
It is memory in motion.
A Living System of Practice
This work is not assembled. It is constituted through relation.
Roles do not define hierarchy. They define points of responsibility within a shared ecology.
Each contributor operates as both specialist and steward, holding the conditions that allow the work to exist, shift, and endure.
Core Direction
Creative Direction, Lead Performer, Co-Director, Writer, Set and Costume Design
jaamil olawale kosoko
This role does not centralize authorship. It anchors the system while remaining in exchange with it.
Terms of Engagement
You are not asked to decode.
You are asked to stay.
Resist the impulse to interpret too quickly.
Resist the need to make the work resolve.
Notice where your attention moves.
Notice where it withdraws.
Your role is not to understand everything.
Your role is to remain accountable to what you encounter.
Co-presence is the practice.
What you carry out of this space is part of the archive.
Kingsley Ibeneche - Co-Director
Ev-Asis Saunders - Sound Designer/ Composer/ Musician
Black Maij - Cello
Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora - Dancer
Song Tucker - Dancer
Jordan Deal - Video Designer
Connor Sale - Lighting Designer
Philip Errico - Costume & Wardrobe Supervisor
RED Kadetsky - Scenic Consultant
Cory Seals - Stage Manager
su güzey - Production Manager
Toni Mitchelli - Crew
Jack Sterling - Crew
Collaborating Artists:
KPS TEAM
Amy Smith - Business and Finance Manager
Jenni Bowman - Producer
Cory Seals - Archives and Special Projects Manager
JS Wu - Storyboard Artist
Lingling Yang - Grants Advisor
Alvis Mosely - Cinematographer
Gretchen LaMotte - Grants & Donor Relations Manager
Jason Goodman - Associate Producer
Melissa Kievman - Creative Producer
Reba Gazdik - Administrative & Operations Consultant
Brian Bacong - Virtual Assistant
Infrastructure of Care
This project marks a structural shift.
From KPS as a site of artistic production
To Third Form Studios as a system of sustained practice
This is not an expansion. It is a correction.
The question is no longer how to produce work.
The question is how to sustain the conditions that make the work possible.
Care is not symbolic. It is operational.
It appears as:
Time structured around capacity, not urgency
Resources distributed with intention, not scarcity
Attention given to physical, emotional, and spiritual thresholds
Care is the infrastructure that holds the archive intact.
Without it, the work cannot continue.
With it, the work does not collapse under its own weight.
The initial inquiry asks if abundance is possible within inherited conditions of lack.
This section answers differently.
Abundance is not discovered.
It is constructed.
Through:
Shared responsibility
Long-term commitment
Refusal of extractive timelines
This is the work beneath the work.
This living structure extends beyond the performance.
It requires material support to remain intact.
This is not a gesture of charity.
It is an entry point into the system.
To contribute is to:
Support artist-centered infrastructure
Invest in care as a working model
Participate in the preservation of embodied archives
You are not funding a project.
You are reinforcing a condition where this practice can continue to exist.
Co-conspiracy is ongoing.