KOFI FOSU FORSON

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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...
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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...
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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-ID...
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