Kordae Henry

The work of artist and filmmaker Kordae Jatafa Henry is a form of storytelling that revives 21st-century counter-cultures and human experiences. Kordae is interested in expanding our understanding of futures by taking fragments of these worlds and examining the variety of human interactions. Through a collaborative process, his projects can amalgamate those fragments into new narratives and myths.

His most recent work explores the ontological themes of raw materials, mysticism, landscapes, movement performance, race, gender, and emergent technologies, through the power of ceremony and ritual. Following a non-binary approach, Kordae’s work reconstructs past, present, and future narratives, driven by pop culture and Black speculative fiction.

Through live-action music films, installations, dance, game-engine environments, and mythology, Kordae’s work invites new ways of seeing humans, folklore, mysticism, pop culture, post-genre music, labor, and creation stories as tools to explore radical imagination.