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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...

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...

‘From New York to Liverpool and Back Again’ Review of From New York to Liverpool and Back Again (Femmes du Futur) by Kofi Fosu at Loft Space Programme (15 April 2007 – 28 April 2007), Curated by Jo Derbyshire. Written by June Rose Hobson. Photographs © Tony Knox 2007. – 23 April 2007. From New York to Liverpool and Back Again (Femmes du Futur) by Kofi Fosu is the last in the curatorial programme of the Loft Space, conceived and managed by Jo Derbyshire (15 April 2007 – 21 April 2007 (Extended 28 April 2007)). Fosu is an artist working and living in New York (US). He describes himself as a philosopher, artist and writer. He is originally from Ghana, but settled in New York with his family, as a child. He is an established visual artist and writer and featured artist at the Eickholt Gallery in New York, as well as exhibiting in many other venues. He has a penchant for philosophical discourse on the subject of gender politics and sexual relations in contemporary society. In the...

About I am a Ghanaian writer and artist who explores gender based art about the art muse, roots of the artist's psycho-social transformation through race, habitation of a city (New York), by using collaborative interventions in poetry, theater and performance. I started as a playwright and director at The Riant Theater, writing and directing One-Acts and showcases. These allowed for other credits such as casting director, light and sound person for the stage. My full length play, Alligator Pass, was nominated for the Arnold Weissberger Award. This play was presented in different forms; traditional, goth and black. The last of which featured an all-black cast for the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday. As press officer at the Eickholt Gallery, I wrote about the gallery's artists for articles published in NY Arts Magazine, among others. At the Eickholt Gallery I presented my paintings and drawings in group shows. My role as director in the gallery's affi...