As part of their engagement with Another Audience at Black Hole Hollow, jaamil olawale kosoko will offer REST, CRAFT, CONJURE, a restshop. Centering themes of rest and restoration as a creative instrument for radical world building, exploring horizontality, the esoteric, and community archival methodologies, REST, CRAFT, CONJURE gifts critical time and space to its participants to deepen the reservoir of dreaming as a creative tool to allow the critical embodiments for healing, rest reparation, expanded visioning, and embodied self-care to emerge.
jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent originally from Detroit, MI. kosoko moves across the creative realms of live art performance, video, sculpture, and poetry using both cultural and academic idioms. As an educator and community organizer, they approach politics and education as extensions of their creative process. Through ritual and spiritual practice, embodied poetics, Black critical studies, and queer theories of the body, kosoko conjures and crafts perpetual modes of freedom, healing, and care when/where/however possible.
jaamil’s works - including Black Body Amnesia (2022), Chameleon (2020), Séancers (2017), and the Bessie Award-nominated #negrophobia (2015) - have toured to venues and festivals such as Abrons Art Center, Gibney Dance Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, Fusebox Festival, Montréal Arts Interculturels (CA), Moving in November (FI), TakeMeSomewhere (UK), SICK! (UK), Tanz im August (DE), Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival (Norway), Zurich MOVES! (CH), Beursschouwburg (BE) and Spielart Festival (DE) among others.
jaamil is the recipient of several awards including the 2022 Slamdance Jury Prize for Best Experimental Short film, 2022 LaBecque Residency (Switzerland), 2021/22 MacDowell Fellowship, 2020 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, 2019 Red Bull Arts Fellowship, 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography, 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellowship, among many others.
jaamil has held curatorial positions at New York Live Arts, 651 Arts, and The Watermill Center. They lecture regularly at Princeton University and The University of the Arts Philadelphia. Visit jaamil.com for more information
Another Audience is a mutable performance project created and facilitated by Nicole Daunic that exists as a moveable collective research platform, deep spacetime portal and whatever else it needs to become. It is offered as a container to support, engage and connect artists whose performance research and practice takes place within an intra-active, multi-species, multi-agential arena animated by expanded, post-anthropocentric notions of audience and performance. Through this work, another audience seeks to engage and uplift human/nonhuman/inhuman/more-than-human risky collaborations, ambiguous communions, and synergistic publics.
Black Hole Hollow
1843 Black Hole Hollow Road
Arlington, VT 05250
United States