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Chameleonic Survivalism

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s “Adaptive Strategies and Ways of Being in the World”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Ashley Ferro-Murray
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Abstract

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s work focuses on adaptability and survival. Kosoko’s April 2020 Chameleon (The Living Installments) exemplifies the importance of an individual artist’s responses to the Covid-19 moment, the historical imperative for hybrid in-person/online performance, how 21st-century liveness functions in performance, as well as political awareness of artist-centered approaches to curatorial practice.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 115 - 130
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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