Osadolor Osawemwenze

Osadolor Osawemwenze

The multidisciplinary artist Osadolor cultivates a unique direction embedded in low resolution to turn memories into active archives beyond time. Their dynamic audiovisual dreamscapes reflect the hybridity of their aesthetic sensibility. 

Osadolor Osawemwenze is a director, visual maker, creative researcher, and sound designer based in New York City. Through audiovisual works, Osadolor makes space to wonder/wander in abstraction, expansion, and fleeting clarity. His experiences, [physical, social, and cultural] environments, and media consumption continue to shape their nuanced thoughts on life as a Blackqueer Nigerian American born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Moments of discovery, reflection, introspection, and the messy flux of self/communal realization influence her multifaceted creative journey. In his thesis, which won the 2024 Kennell Jackson Jr. Award at Stanford University, Osadolor argues that Lo-Fi and D-I-Y aesthetics, especially in audiovisual productions, can be an Afropresentist tool for Blackqueer folks to reimagine their sense of self, community, and relationship with their cultural memory, the everyday present, and envisioning the future. 

Their latest experimental short documentary, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi (2024), premiered at the 2024 London Breeze Film Festival as a Best Documentary finalist and in Chicago at the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival. In Chicago, the film screening was a part of "PRESENTation: an_evening_w/_osadolor," where Osadolor creatively presented her thesis work through a live art performance featuring his award-winning short film, jamaica_all in awe.avi (2024). a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi (2024) also had a sold-out NYC premiere screening at the Maysles Documentary Center and was officially selected for the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival.

In Osadolor's globally charting podcast, a coming of age, but irl, they blur introspection and conversation through uniquely crafted sonic experiences. She has shown video, sound art, and mixed-media works in galleries and festivals, including producing an immersive listening experience at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He has also been featured in Something Curated and Boy.Brother.Friend.

a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi

HD Video / 25:54 min / 2024

01:53 min excerpt

a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi delves deep into the nuance of today's Blackqueer youth. This dynamic and non-linear supercut provides a carefully crafted audiovisual space for the multiplicity of Blackqueer self-expressions. The talents' complex minds, full hearts, and embodied wisdom illuminate a sonic cacophony and visual display of growing intimacy, vulnerability, and closeness.