Cory Seals

Cory Seals is an interdisciplinary artist and community curator born in Atlanta, GA and based in Philadelphia, PA. Seals’ motivation is to use movement and sound to create a landscape of improvisational practices, promiscuous futuring, and emergent strategy towards collective action, radical care, and illuminating the diversely interconnected experiences of black and queer people.

Seals’ interdisciplinary work seeks to identify restorative frameworks for self and community care through illuminating histories of black queer desire as embodied research and meditative/explorative/exhibitive performance. His practices include vocal activations through song and speech, sonic landscape, prose and poetic writing, movement, and improvisation with voice, text, and movement. With projects ranging from experimental live performance to archive design— Seals devises fantastical and functional tools for black queer futurity. Cory regularly works with other artists and community members in performance, design, archival, and administration, bridging artistic practice with practical world building.

His past works include “sea shanty for the cargo” 2022 Santa Reparata International School of Art (Florence, IT), “SOUNDS OF SPIRIT” 2022 Arthur Ross Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), “a forgotten elegy” 2024 University of the Arts ( Philadelphia, PA), and most recently “P(o/u)NK” 2024 Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia, PA). Cory is the recipient of several awards including the MAP Fund Microgrant and the UArts President’s Award for Interdisciplinary Excellence, among many others. Alongside his own projects, Seals is currently a touring member of Faye Driscoll's Weathering which has toured extensively to internationally recognized institutions, venues, and festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.

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