Washington Post: Holly Bass and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko: Double Consciousness
"...Both say they use a vernacular that’s pop. 'I’m a trained performer. I have the ability to do highly technical work,' Kosoko explains.
Phi la • dic tion: (noun) 1 A state of wonder and creativity that originated in Philadelphia and expands throughout the globe. 2 A fiendish insatiability that fuels performace and insanity. 3 A visual performance hub founded by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko that supports dynamic ideas and cultural exchange in partnership with anonymous bodies || art collective.
A peek inside Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s head, 2010 Interview with Joyce SoHo's J. Douglass
The poem Spirits of the Dead was the first piece of written research I’d done forAn Expectation of Violence. It investigates a lineage of women who haunt me. And not in the way you may think. There are many ways to be haunted by the dead. Some ways manifest creatively.
other.explicit.body. (preview excerpt)
Check Jaamil Kosoko's 2011/2012 LAB Research
What you think? Reach Jaamil via twitter @jaamilkosoko
Sherapy with Sherry at Sherry is Present.