jaamil olawale kosoko & Alexis McCrimmon on Syllabus for Black Love

Syllabus for Black Love is the lush multichannel installation by jaamil olawale kosoko, a recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award who worked with numerous Wex staffers over a three year period. For this WexCast, we’re excited to share a conversation between kosoko and Alexis McCrimmon, an editor in the Wex Film/Video Studio and a filmmaker in her own right, moderated by Film/Video Studio Curator Jennifer Lange. Syllabus for Black Love is on view now in the Wex galleries as part of the summer 2022 interdisiplinary platform Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage, and it’s the second collaboration between kosoko and McCrimmon, following the film Chameleon (A Visual Album). That work, codirected by Ima Iduozee, won the Best Experimental Short award at the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year and it’s also on view now at the Wex. Theirs has been a close and fruitful partnership, and in the talk that follows, each of the artists speaks about the relationship they developed and what they learned from each other.