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Chameleonic Survivalism

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s “Adaptive Strategies and Ways of Being in the World”
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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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Ferro-Murray, A. (2022). Chameleonic Survivalism: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s “Adaptive Strategies and Ways of Being in the World”. TDR: The Drama Review, 66(2), 115-130. doi:10.1017/S1054204322000132

Main Image: Chameleon (2020). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mick Bello/EMPAC.

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