Friday, May 10, 2024
TIME: 5pm
LOCATION: BLACK HOLE HOLLOW (MAP)
REGISTRATION: Sliding scale $0-$25 (All are welcome. Advance registration is appreciated but not required.)
ARTIST: jaamil olawale kosoko
REST, CRAFT, CONJURE is 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.
About the artist
2024 Another Audience Artist 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.
Accessibility
We encourage anyone interested in coming who may need accessibility support to reach out in advance to hello@blackholehollow.org or call (917)499-9030. We encourage participants to bring a support person to accompany them as we navigate different terrain.
Parking
Parking is available about 20 feet from the main entrance to Black Hole Hollow. There is a gravel road with a slight downward incline from the parking area to the main entrance. If this is not accessible for your needs, guests can also park in the main driveway, which is closer to the gathering space.
While we have the intention to expand our capacity to support expanded accessibility, we apologize that at this time we are not able to offer ASL support and do not have ADA compliant spaces. We are open to any conversations that might ensure your ability to participate.
COVID Protocol:
This event will take place outdoors. In the interest of supporting those with compromised immune systems we will enforce COVID protocol such as mask wearing depending on COVID levels at the time of the event.
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