niv Acosta

niv Acosta will be participating in the roundtable discussion “Sound Minds: Reclaiming Mental Health” on Friday 2 November at Böhmischer Kirchensaal. For tickets, click here.

Louis comfort Tiffany award winning, niv Acosta is a Multi-award winning and internationally acclaimed multi-medium artist and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. his intersectional identities as transgender, queer, and black-dominican have continuously inspired his community based work. niv’s work and thought leadership has been featured in many publications including Performance Journal, VICE, Brooklyn Magazine, Apogee Journal, BOMB Magazine and more. His performance work has debuted in various Instiutions nationally and abroad including Matadero Madrid (es), Tate Modern (GB), Tanz Im August & Kunst-Werke Institut (DEU), Weinerfestwochen (OS), The David Roberts Foundation (GB), The Kimmel Center (US), Human Resources (US), MOMA PS1 (US), Studio Museum (US), New Museum (US), and McGill University (CA), among many. niv has collaborated with Alicia Keys, Fannie sosa, BEarcat,Pxssy Palace, Jay boogie, Monstah Black, Lyle Ashton-Harris, Ralph Lemon, Ishmael Houston-Jones, My Barbarian, Deborah Hay, A.K. Burns and Andrea Geyer. niv’s current projects include black Power Naps, a multi-purpose separatist organizing space with a focus on rest, restoration, rejuvenation, reparation and black joy As well as other multi media, all devised in collaboration with Black artists, are propositions for how reparative economies can better hold communities of color. Parallel to his artistic practice through his racial justice work he has provided Racism trainings for Cultural Producers at Matadero Madrid (Spain), KW Institute (Berlin,DE), NYU, Vassar College and Movement Research (USA).

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