Justin F. Kennedy is a Berlin-based community dance and vocal artist, teacher, dramaturg, and DJ, from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Justin’s research evolves from a durational dance and singing practice, and its further transmittance into cyphers, workshops, science fiction operas, installations, street interventions, happenings, music and film. Notable projects of late include: Apocalypso (2024), It`s OK. Commoning Uncertainties (2023) in collaboration with Joy Mariama Smith, Sun unseT (2022), SNDO, experimental dance film: Cannibalizing the Conductor (2022) in collaboration with filmmaker Derek Howard and artist Emma Howes, Recap of an Alien Garden, Movement Research Across, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2022), A(un) Necessary World, Lifes, Hammer Museum, LA (2022), Vorglühen, OUT NOW, Uferhallen, Berlin (2021); UNFURL the jukebox musical: a shareable cypher, Montag Modus, Radialsystem, Berlin (2021); UNFURL: a lucid science fiction, 11th Berlin Biennale, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020); and Some Murder Theatre in Here, Volksbühne Grüner Salon, Berlin (2020). Justin has performed intimately with and for Melanie Jame Wolf, Martin Hansen, NSDOS, ILYICH, Jeannette Ehlers, Shannon Funchess, Dani Brown, Ligia Lewis, Louis Vuitton, Tino Sehgal, Adam Linder, Liz Kinoshita, Jeremy Shaw, Josh Johnson, BODYSNATCH, Faustin Linyekula, Jeremy Wade, Peaches, Wu Tsang, and others.
17.04.2023
