Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and Kate Watson-Wallace co-directors of the interdisciplinary company anonymous bodies that straddles Philadelphia and Brooklyn bring their performance experiments to JACK in a shared bill.
Kosoko will present an excerpt from "The Jigaboo King," a performance installation that continues his investigation into the complexities of identity and masculinity and that is derived from his 2015 work "#negrophobia." Contained in a single square of light and using a mash up of horror-film soundtracks, negro spirituals, and interview clips, this work examines the residual affects and parafictional constructs of whiteness as a code of supremacy within the contemporary American project. This work features musical accompaniment and sound design by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. The piece is made possible by the 2016 boo-koo residency at Gibney Dance Center.
In Watson-Wallaces performance installation, she is joined by performers Jasmine Hearn and Ann-Marie Gover inside a large pile of fur a container for conjuring trauma-ghosts, playing dress up/down, confessionals, boredom, and future-play. Featuring live musical accompaniment and sound design by Xenia Rubinos (ANTI Records), the installation uses strategies of pleasure, the erotic, ritual, and ecstatic experience to meditate on loss, desire and labor.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY @ 7 PM
SUNDAY @ 5 PM
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anonymous bodies: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and Kate Watson-Wallace
First Preview: Apr 11, 2016
Opening Date: May 7, 2016
Closing Date: May 8, 2016
Running Time: 01:50
Playing @
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Audience Advisory: Saturday show will be followed by a discussion moderated by Okwui Okpokwasili
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