Cosmophage Collective is the New York-based conceptual practice of artist and storyteller Jemma Rose Brown and chef and experience designer Jimmy Tran. Their work uses ingredients, meals, and rituals of consumption as a location of deep research. 

As Cosmophage, they create performances, installations, and experiences to provoke new thinking about the ways in which we eat, and are eaten. They believe that the rituals of cooking and sharing a meal can be a transformative act.  

Cosmophage has created performances on Governors Island, in Prospect Park, at Future Space in Bushwick, Parfumarie, and in the homes of friends. Their work has been featured in Fungi Magazine and was awarded a 2021 NYFA City Arts Corps Grant.

Raised and based in NYC, Jemma is the Director of Programming of On Air Fest and the creative agency work x work. Alongside her professional practice, Jemma’s independent works engage ritual-making, cooking, scent, writing, performance and audio recordings to create environments for intimacy, and test the boundaries between self and other.

Jimmy Tran is an anti-disciplinary experience designer and practitioner of the applied arts. His contributions are a unique concatenation of his immersive studies in architecture, gastronomy, environmental design, physical computing, textile science, oenology, and horticulture. He seeks to tailor human experiences by engaging each of the senses and addressing a deeper level of consciousness.

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