Stephanie Acosta
Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist, dramaturg, experimental archivist and organizer who places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of their practice. Blending performance with practice-based and studio research and engaging ensembles in facilitated processes, they create fleeting performance works that examine perception in shared experiences. Acosta has presented their works with and for Museum of Art and Design, MCA Chicago, Chocolate Factory Theatre, Knockdown Center, the Current Sessions, Miami Performance International Festival, IN>Time Symposium, Abrons Arts Center, and the Performance Philosophy conference.
As dramaturg Acosta has collaborated with artist Miguel Gutierrez, on multiple projects including Cela nous concerne tous (This concerns all of us), This Bridge Called My Ass, and Super Nothing. Recent choreographer collaborations include Jessie Young, Kayla Hamilton, Leslie Cuyjet and Amber Sloane.
The curatorial performance experiment Sunday Service ran for 6 seasons co-created by Alexis Wilkinson. Good Day God Damn, a solo exhibition, with accompanying talk show Apocalypse Talks, speaking on themes of multi-crisis making and radical hope hosted by Chocolate Factory Theatre in 2021. Acosta joined as lead archivist for the AUNTS Archive and the Jo Andres Archive alongside Laurie Berg.