Online, the center will host two digital engagements on Instagram Live in a program entitled Valences of the Algorithm, featuring a conversation between Imma Asher and Jian Chen and a separate event with Mimi Ọnụọha.Ī June film series, Say Gay: LGBTQ+ Pride on Film, celebrates LGBTQ+ pioneers and artists who have directly influenced kosoko, such as Maya Deren and Shirley Clarke. kosoko and McCrimmon previously collaborated on the Wex-supported film Chameleon: A Visual Album, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Short at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival it will be presented in The Box, the Wex’s dedicated video space, June through August.Ī robust calendar of related events offers new experiences not just for opening week, but through the run of the exhibition. The platform will present the premiere of kosoko’s first multichannel installation, Syllabus for Black Love, featuring kosoko and Jennifer Kidwell, which was created with support from the Wex’s Film/Video Studio and editor Alexis McCrimmon. If fugitivity can be defined as escape without exit, then Portal For(e) is Black admission with or without entrance.” I have been drawn closer to artists who have inspired my thinking and exploration into the shapeshifting principles that Black queer people employ to survive and heal. In kosoko’s own words, “the chameleonic nature of this collective research has always been about exploring various worldings of freedom through performance and social practice. The myriad personal histories inspired by these thinkers serve to amplify the imaginative storytelling present within the Black visual performance artists featured in Portal For(e).
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Portal For(e) also consists of community events, a film series, performances, and an Instagram Live series. A preview party and dub night take place at the Wex on Thursday, June 9, kicking off a week of opening programs.Ĭentering collectivity and embodied practice, Portal For(e) draws influence from Black poets and theorists who have rendered it vital to “confront lovelessness” (bell hooks), understand the “uses of the erotic” (Audre Lorde), and survive the intersection of a body made of “starshine and clay” (Lucille Clifton), all the while being marked by the “hieroglyphics of the flesh” (Hortense Spillers). The interdisciplinary exhibition presents new projects by kosoko, nora chipaumire, Jennifer Harge (a Wex Artist Residency Award recipient) and Devin Drake, Dana Michel, Jasmine Murrell, and Keioui Keijaun Thomas.
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Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage welcomes audiences to imagine new worlds through a summer of installations and interconnected events building on Black feminist knowledge, queer theory, and sacred rituals of intimacy and wellness.
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The culmination of three years of collaboration between kosoko and all the center’s curatorial areas-a relationship that has already yielded a performance, educational programming, and an award-winning short film-the exhibition not only reflects a stronger focus on interdisciplinarity at the Wex, it comes with an open invitation to return often through a new institutional initiative offering free gallery admission.
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Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage, on view June 10–August 14, is the first exhibition guest curated by a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient, jaamil olawale kosoko. With its summer exhibition, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University ushers in a new era of access and collaboration.