Museum of Arts and Design

The exhibition Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art includes a series of live events featuring artists who engage critically with fashion and costume through live and video-based performances. To accompany their film Chameleon: A Visual Album, Garmenting artist jaamil olewale kosoko will perform an excerpt from their new living artwork, Black Body Amnesia on July 7, 2022. This project was developed out of kosoko's ongoing, multi-media, live art project, American Chameleon, which explores queer theories of the body and its "hydraulics of grief." The performance lecture will blend poetry and memoir, conversation, and moving image, offering a framework to consider the fluid identities and life-worlds inside contemporary Black America.

This intimate, one-hour performance will take place in the exhibition gallery in front of a small audience. The performance will be followed by a talkback.