josie j
Coaxial Arts Foundation is thrilled to announce josie j as our December Resident Artist
December 8 - 15
Rubbish Movers
Dec. 9th - 5pm
Infinite Pairings w/Raquel Bell, Senora Bufo aka Ms. Frog, Arden Stern, Jared Marshall, Denniswithy, Haydee Jimenez
Wednesday, Dec. 10th - 7pm
Corporeal Reformation Butoh Workshop
Thursday Dec. 11th - 5-8pm
Strange Soup (collective performance)
Sunday, Dec. 14th - 3pm
Strange Soup (collective performance)
Monday, Dec. 15th, 7pm
“I wish to tap into the stream of thought of the collective consciousness. In this research I wish to develop a stream of collective conscious fever dreams, A voyage into the inner worlds of Being. Imagine a philosophical visual and audioscape through the deep centers of an internal scifi/ pseudo spiritual world.” -josie j
This year, Homegrown granted Neoma artist collective studio space at Fusion Dance Academy. Homegrown is an organization that helps local artists with studio access, with help from the Dance Resource Center.
Studio time was spent conditioning together and exploring movement. From themes captured in our notes a collective poetic verse was constructed. From this container of collective thoughts we reflected over our brew. In this brew, we let it tell us what to present at Coaxial.
Artists participating:
josie j
Albert Ortega (Legg Lake)
annakai hg
Arden Stern
Echo
Hermonie Byrdb
Joyce Ha
josie j
mai ishikawa sutton
Maiko Okajima
Mica
Artist josie j (divinebrick) is a self iconoclast search for the sacred primordial/ divine being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is the further erasure of the colonized self accepted for autonomy.
Expanding their practice from the visual arts, in 2010 josie j began studies in dance with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano. The Tamano’s are Berkeley based Butoh Masters, once students of Tatsumi Hijikata.
While in San Francisco working with the Tamanos josie j worked with performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, who works in a Psycho Magic style.
josie j has also studied movement with Oguri In Venice, Ca. Oguri being a greatly influential dancer in josie j’s style.
Gung Fu and Tai Chi practice is also influential in josie j’s corporeal explorations. Studying these Chinese ancient medicines with James Ibrao, from 2013 till his passing in 2020. Sifu James Ibrao was a martial arts legend living in Pasadena, CA.
Visual, sound, video, woodworking and craft arts are mediums often found in josie j’s work.
www.razethewhitebox.com
IG: divinebrickartist
My practice is an exploration in phenomenon, an ancient practice that finds a wide scope. When my practice is presented in a solo form, I use the title "divinebrick". "divinebrick" name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and caretaking the grander whole.
Work generally includes sound, body, environment, and objects. Sound is an element that finds different forms in my practice, it may come from the body, sculpture, the surroundings, and collaborating musicians. Objects in my practice are sound sculptures that interact with my holistic approach to body movement. Themes of work vary on specific needs. Some themes in the past have been initiation rites to a first time mother and a meditation on primordial growth. Currently I wish to explore what phenomena are involved with art making, making with sensitivity, finding questions in emerging technology.
annakai hg practices unclenching the jaw after years of tightening it. she lives nearby.
Legg Lake(Albert Ortega) : Legg Lake unravels imaginary ecosystems made real through gestural sound
Arden Stern is a scholar, labor activist, and artist who conducts creative experiments in the unceded ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash people.
Echo is an intermediary to the spirits.
Hermonie Byrdb is an interdisciplinary artist radical intersectional-antiestablishmentarialist mortal.
Joyce Ha Joyce Ha is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and clown. Her work often lives where the absurd and tender meet.
divinebrick (josie j) is a self iconoclast search for the sacred primordial being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is the further erasure of the colonized self accepted for autonomy.
mai ishikawa sutton (they/them) [https://maisutton.net/] is an organizer, writer/editor, and artist born, raised, and based in Los Angeles. Their work is primarily focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy as the lead editor of COMPOST magazine and as a senior organizer with DWeb. In their movement practice, they explore the possibilities of situation through breath, presence, and improvisation.
Maiko Okajima is a dancer, choreographer, and performer who’s interested how minimalistic body movement effects and creates relationship and narrative to the powerful and energetic movements. My work is influenced by mother earth nature and Butoh (Japanese theater performance) which is a simplistic but complex relationship between the body movement and space.
Mica is a Brazilian migrant artist whose practice navigates the intersections of body, land, memory, and resistance. Guided by questions and influenced by intergenerational wisdom, their work explores how we shape the world—and how, in turn, the world shapes us. Their practice continually returns to the body as a space of connection, transformation, and possibility.
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A full color book documenting over six years of Coaxial residencies, events, and programs since its beginning in March 2015.
Book measures 7.5" x 10" with 176 pages.
Design by Sean Deyoe with forward by William Hutson and introduction by Director & Founder Eva Aguila. Special thanks to Marlo De Lara and Natalie Robehmed for helping with proofreading.