The Local Lab Collective, with Kevin Aoussou
Kevin Aoussou is an Ivorian born Chicago based immigrant artist with a focus in Theatre Collective and the Founder of The Local Lab Collective. Kevin holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Acting from Northwestern University, and is a graduate of Winthrop University where he majored in theater performance and mass communications with a focus in broadcast journalism. Kevin works as an actor, director, producer, workshop developer, as well as teaching artists with Chicago Children's Theatre, Once Upon Our Time Capsule, and Shakespeare Behind Bars. Kevin's theater practices focuses on the intersection of change making and community building through collaboration, reimagining the potential of curation and new play development through intentional social architecture.
This residency is an opportunity for me to activate my art making beliefs by using this space and support to engage with "Theater" as a tool for the investigation of the human experience. My work focuses on the intersection of collaboration, creativity, and change making using an anti-perfectionism, anti-product orientation, anti-capitalism, and ideals of anti-conformity to challenge our experience and our perception of the power we hold as humans to create something that changes our communities.
