The black box theater at Abrons Arts Center looked as if a storm had swept through it. The artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko was preparing his new work, “Séancers,” and had just rehearsed a section that involved cloaking himself in these materials, then artfully shedding them. Yet one item stood out as more precious: a framed photograph of Mr. Kosoko’s mother, who died when he was 16. She’s back again.”In “Séancers,” which will have its premiere on Wednesday at Abrons, Mr. Kosoko deals with losses both personal and cultural — most intimately, the deaths of his mother, brother and father. “In a way, we are practicing a kind of ritual of praise to the cellphone, to Hulu, to the computer.”

Source: New York Times December 05, 2017 18:11 UTC