Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa run the transdisciplinary project Black Power Naps. In their installations, performances, films, community-based projects, and publications, they address the oppression of QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), particularly through a lack of rest. The artists draw on historical records documenting the use of sleep deprivation as a means of subjugating slaves, as well as recent US studies (including from the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC and Stanford University in California) that identify a glaring BIPOC sleep deficit as a result of structural discrimination, such as increased hours worked due to lower pay and blocked access to housing in quiet locations. Based on this research, their Black Power Naps project explores recovery as a subversive form of resistance. With warm lighting, soft materials, and a soothing soundscape, the installation Chill Pill X Black Power Naps by Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa invites visitors to take a break from touring the exhibition Thunder in Your Throat and indulge in relaxation and regeneration. This immersive spatial landscape will be activated in Auction House, a performance about un-performance by Acosta and Sosa together with performer Thioro Niang, calling for recreation as reparation and celebrating idleness.

Black Power Naps has been presented at numerous international institutions including: Museum of Art and Design Miami Dade College, Miami (2020); Sophiensaele, Berlin (2020); Performance Space New York (2019); Matadero Madrid (2018). In 2019, Acosta and Sosa presented the project at the Creative Capital Artist Retreat at Bard College, New York.

Navild Acosta (b. 1988 in New York) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist. His writing has been published in numerous magazines, including Performance Journal, VICE, Brooklyn Magazine, Apogee Journal, and BOMB Magazine. Acosta's performances, installations, and workshop formats have been presented at: Ford Foundation Gallery, New York (2021, with Fannie Sosa); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016); Tate Modern, London (2016, with Fannie Sosa); New Museum, New York (2015). In parallel to his artistic practice, he has conducted trainings for cultural producers at New York University, Vassar College, New York, and Movement Research, New York, as part of his anti-racism work.

Fannie Sosa (*1992 in Buenos Aires) works as an interdisciplinary artist and activist and is a doctoral researcher. Sosa's writings question binary epistemology, academic and institutional racism, and gendered economic inequalities; in 2020, Sosa published the online guidebook A White Institutions Guide For Welcoming Artists Of Color And Their Audiences. Sosa participated in festivals such as Dice, Berlin (2018), presented works at institutions such as Ford Foundation Gallery, New York (2021, with Navild Acosta), and hosted workshops at several art houses, including articule, Montreal (2021); Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main (2016); and Tate Modern, London (2016, with Navild Acosta).