Precious Okoyomon

LIST OF WORKS

READING LIST

The reading list is softly inspired by where I am in life right now, trying to stop time and reading poems in soft patches of grass, looking for the same hummingbird every day, and then love stopping and starting time. — Precious Okoyomon

Precious Okoyomon allow the knowledge of the other to mark me, deep into the co-emergence of transubjectivity , 2022 Structure built with tree branches, dried mud, hay, and stuffed animals

Precious Okoyomon cosmic effluvia, 2022 Stoneware, resin, and blood

She tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary by Veena Das

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Gio Escobar of Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble Do the Dead Know What Time It is? , 2022 Audio

Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004 by Tan Lin

Gio Escobar of Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble and Precious Okoyomon Worm Food , 2022 Audio

Alice ordered me to be made by Alice Notley

“The Lives of Infamous Men” (essay) by Foucault

Gio Escobar of Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble Hee hee haa haa XuXu , 2021 Audio

Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998–2007 by Aaron Kunin

Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht

The Crisis of Infinite Worlds by Dana Ward

Dear Angel of Death by Simone White

PRECIOUS OKOYOMON is a Nigerian-American poet and artist. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life. They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau in Zurich (2018), the Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2020), Performance Space New York (2021), and the Aspen Art Museum (2021). They were included in the 59th Venice Biennale, the 58th Belgrade Biennial as well as group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the LUMA Arles, France. Major performances have been commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019). Their second book of poetry But Did U Die? will be co-published by the Serpentine Galleries and Wonder Press in 2022. Okoyomon was a 2020 artist-in-residence at the LUMA Arles, and they are the 2021 recipient of the Frieze Art Fair Artist Award, as well as the 2022 Chanel Next Art Prize. STANDING ON THE CORNER is an Earth-based Art Ensemble founded in 2016 by Shamel Cee Mystery, aka Gio Escobar, that functions best in Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by, made for, and consisting of the resilience and upheaval of all people of the African diaspora, Standing On The Corner thrives in fugitivity: they can appear on any particular Night as the beat of one drum, as an orchestra of 30, or as a ghost entirely, but always on the run. The ensemble produces musical, visual, and experiential works that equate hyperlocal incidence to cosmological wisdom. Visiting sites of emotional resonance under the weight of subjective histories and traumas, the art ensemble seeks to uncover the mysteries and the ghosts of hidden truths through focused interpretation.

The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan

The collected poems of Édouard Glissant by Édouard Glissant

Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

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