Installation Activation
June 9, 6pm
Exhibition
June 7-9, 12-5pm
June 14 & 16, 12-5pm
June 15, 2-7pm
June 21-23, 12-5pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Lower Gallery

Accessibility: The Lower Gallery is ground floor and fully wheelchair accessible.

Multidisciplinary artist jaamil olawale kosoko presents an exhibition incorporating video installation, photographic imagery, sculpture, and performance in the Lower Gallery at The Arts Center at Governors Island as part of their evolving visual performance practice that combines Black and queer theoretical, literary and spiritual lineages with biographical and bodily knowledge. The exhibition will incorporate past works including the film Chameleon (A Visual Album), three-channel video and installation Syllabus for Black Love, as well as photo and documentation of past performances. The multi-media installation will include a performance activation titled (chrysalis: activation 1)—a hybrid media performance work that integrates sculpture, moving image, original poetry, and emergent choreographic strategies prompted by the audience. The work examines concepts of metamorphosis, intergenerational knowledge, blood memory, negative space, and the environmental grief that lingers in the aftermath of the living gesture.

Performers: jaamil olawale kosoko, Black Maij, Everett-Asis Saunders
Performance Doula: Song Tucker
Lighting Design: LD DeArmon
Creative Producer: Michelle Daly

jaamil olawale kosoko is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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