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  Art Spells in the E. Village Kofi Forson October 2020 FUZZ GLASS (POET, PHILOSOPHER, SEDUCER): ART SPELLS IN EAST VILLAGE, NYC Fuzz Glass was alter ego of art writer, poet and playwright, Kofi Fosu Forson. He existed between the hard, grinding years of life in East Village, New York City, during the fall season of the year, 2011 to late 2012. On a typical night when late artist and painter, Joe Heaps Nelson and artist, saxophonist and publisher of Whitehot Magazine, Noah Becker and Kofi had gotten together for a drink at the local bar, 2A, Kofi hardly knew it was going to be a night unlike any other when his life would change. Their conversations drifted between the art scene; current gallery openings, art gossip, all the while they humored Kofi, who almost always seemed manic, outrageous in his persona, being not so much life of the party, rather with fault and responsibility, he was the punch line to the equations drawn from all the rhetoric about artists and their neuroses; Kofi a

Art Catharsis at Time of Covid 19  Kofi Fosu Forson September 2020  Great Weather for Media, 2020, Oil Pastel, Graphite, 10 in x 14 in  While the “art world” basically shut down during the pandemic, artists had to keep themselves & community creatively active. We recently featured on Arteidolia a series of interviews by Colette Copeland, where she addressed artist couples living under quarantine and how this impacted their daily artistic practices. Since publishing the poetry of writer, poet and playwright Kofi Fosu Forson in swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings, I’ve been following his Facebook page, where these very intriguing, passionate & candid paintings keep surfacing. Forson captures a mysterious, but revealing deepness with each one portrayed. Curious as to how they evolved, I asked Kofi if he’d like to write about it.  Puma, 2020, Oil Pastel, Graphite, Crayon 10 in x 14 in  ART CATHARSIS AT TIME OF COVID-19: REFLECTIONS ON SELF-IDENTITY  The world is exp

SOCIAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Artist: Kofi Forson Kofi Fosu Forson is writer and artist who identifies as para-meta-modernist and whose writing explores subjects of posttrauma, postshock and ongoing transformation from realm of post-white shock. His current manuscript, Ghost of Brother Blackburn, was triggered by an encounter with Caucasians in traditionally black environments, examples of modern gentrification. At Gun Hill Road stop, red-headed woman, business suit and heels, typed on PC I had become animal – horror in my eyes, laugh-less hyena, burnt-throated, fang Mid-western, rugged good looks, charismatic man reading, slouched and stared Room of black faces, I sat paranoid, clay-figure, senior-citizened, scatter-brained Only black character in a Fassbinder film – decolonizing his way up Boogie-down Dead-tired, consciously black, feeling blood boil next to hyper-real, strong men Stress from brother is blackness in coffee cup; the kind you heave against a wall Hurt

Mapping Media Scholars in the Art of Journalism Posted by wadmin on Nov 7, 2016 in Critic's Area | 0 comments Special thanks to Christine Bode for sharing my interview with Kofi Forson at https://scullylovepromo.com/2016/11/06/mapping-media-scholars-in-the-art-of-journalism. Kofi Forson is a writer, poet and playwright living in NYC. His current blog is Black Cocteau, a mixture of philosophy and art in modern culture. His previously written articles include “Artistry and Celebrity: An Interview with Harry Goaz” among many others for Whitehot Magazine. He sheds light on his inspirations and advice for artistic and scholarly treatments of cultural figures and artifacts in popular culture. Read his insightful words below. Samita Nandy: You blend cinematic art, poetry, and philosophy in ways that are rarely found in tabloid journalism. Why is it significant for you? Kofi Forson: Primarily that is what drives me, hunger for art and intellect. My video/film Cushion Pill prem

Transvoyeur at MediaNoche Posted bylearnbyheart September 20, 2007 SEX, ART AND ARCHITECTURE: HOW WE PHYSICALLY SHAPE OUR LIVES TWO ARTISTS TAKE A TRANSATLANTIC LOOK AT GENDER AND SPACE CULMINATING IN A VIDEO BY CURATOR GAYNOR EVELYN SWEENEY Come see the video at MediaNoche, in our new location on Park Avenue and 102nd Street! September 23 – October 12, Tues – Sat, 3PM – 7PM Projection of video at White Park on East 106th, between Lexington and Third Avenues, Saturday October 13 at 7PM Transvoyeur: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007 Artists: Daiva Gauryte (Liverpool, UK) and Kofi Fosu (New York, US). Curator/Editor: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney. The programme explores the issues of gender in the concept of art and architecture. To analyse the theoretical and multi-disciplinary approaches of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, ideas and projects of how space is defined by gender practices, power and vision

TRANSVOYEUR: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture — Liverpool/New York at MediaNoche November 1, 2009CorrientesCurator /Editor, East 106th Street, Evelyn Sweeney, Kofi Fosu, Liverpool, New York, United Kingdom, United States, WHITE PARK Transvoyeur: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture. Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007. Artists: Daiva Gauryte (Liverpool, UK) and Kofi Fosu (New York, US). Curator/Editor: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney. The programme explores the issues of gender in the concept of art and architecture. To analyse the theoretical and multi-disciplinary approaches of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, ideas and projects of how space is defined by gender practices, power and vision, masculinity and femininity and different parameters of spatiality, including cyberspace, as well the physical world of various architecture and the human body. The outcome in collaborative research and mutual exchange evolved to present a digital video short by G