OFFERING

a space of (un)learning, creating, and testing other possibilities and potentialities in and of activism

mobilize fund to support artists and activists whose pioneering work does not neatly fit into the criteria of mainstream funding institutions

Koso

(Encounter in Fongbé, a language of Benin)

A pop-up-traveling space, Koso invites womxn artists, independent feminist activists, and non-conventional groups in French-speaking Africa to slow down and make dangerous choices—of (un)learning to live, create, lead, play, organize—outside the convenience of business-as-usual in the wilds of uncertainty, limitation, and possibility (including the possibility of failing). By our fifth year, Koso will have shape-shifted into a permanent retreat center in Guinea Conakry.

Koso, the heart of our experiments, is a space of (un)learning, creating, and testing other possibilities and potentialities in and of activism. This offering takes the form of:

  • A three-weeks activist’s residential program that invites and supports independent young feminist activists to dig deeper into their investigation of what else is possible today and their articulations of how we might participate in bringing that what-else into being.

  • A one-to-two month artist-in-residence program that provides womxn artists with a space and opportunity to live, slow down, reflect, research, and create outside their usual environments.

  • A yearly retreat space in which to decelerate, rest, and make ourselves available to our own inner work and attend to our understanding of ourselves within the context of the collective and a dying ecology.

Kisɛw

(threads, seeds, in Bambara, a language of Mali)

Through Kisɛw, we mobilize and provide fund in support of the creativities, political imaginaries, and work of womxn artists, independent feminist activists, and non-conventional groups forging other modes of engagement and responses to emerging and ongoing issues. Kisɛw primarily supports artists and activists whose pioneering work does not neatly fit into the criteria of mainstream funding institutions either because they are deemed too insignificant and/or risky to fund.