Highlights from a long table discussion around the public art project, Exorcism = Liberation, by Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and choreographer Yanira Castro. During this year’s critical American election, "I came here to weep" is but one of several slogans in the project's call-to-action.
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Yanira Castro / a canary torsi: Exorcism = Liberation: I came here to weep with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Sami Hopkins & Theodore (ted) Kerr
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room hosts a long table discussion around the public art project, Exorcism = Liberation, by Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and choreographer Yanira Castro. During this year’s critical American election, "I came here to weep" is but one of several slogans in the project's call-to-action.
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Isolated Field Recording Series: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste - 9 a.m. (Eternal)
A deeply personal two-part recording, 9 a.m. (Eternal) simultaneously embraces both the inner and outer interiorities of Toussaint-Baptiste’s early morning life in Crown Heights, New York, with mundane practices finding new significance against the neighborhood’s dramatically shifting acoustic and physical landscapes—as boomboxes and soundsystems have turned outward to play from balconies along Eastern Parkway.
Isolated Field Recording Series: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste - 9 a.m. (Eternal)
Streaming on this webpage, Vimeo, and Facebook Live
A deeply personal two-part recording, 9 a.m. (Eternal) simultaneously embraces both the inner & outer interiorities of Toussaint-Baptiste’s early morning life in Crown Heights, NYC, with mundane practices finding new significance against the neighborhood’s dramatically shifting acoustic and physical landscapes.
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Evil Nigger: A Five-Part Performance for Julius Eastman by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and LaMont Hamilton
The Kitchen
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste completes his ISSUE residency in collaboration with LaMont Hamilton January 19th - 20th at The Kitchen. The performance features the duo sequentially performing all five of their previously staged “parts” of Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition “Evil Nigger” as a 24 hour interpretive cycle.
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Artist, designer and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste continues his 2017 ISSUE residency, collaborating with interdisciplinary artist LaMont Hamilton at ISSUE Project Room on Sunday, October 8, 2017. The performance is the collaborative duo’s fifth performance around Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition, “Evil Nigger.”
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Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & LaMont Hamilton: Evil Nigger Part IV for Julius Eastman
Artist, designer and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste opens his ISSUE residency with a collaboration with LaMont Hamilton on Saturday, May 6, 2017. The performance is the collaborative duo’s fourth performance around Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition, “Evil Nigger."
Artist, designer and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste opens his ISSUE residency with a collaboration with LaMont Hamilton on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6, 2017. The performance is the collaborative duo’s fourth performance around Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition, “Evil Nigger."
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Artists-In-Residence 2017
Ongoing Series
ISSUE announces the selection of Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Byron Westbrook, Kabir Carter, and Antenes as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2017 season. ISSUE's residency program commissions emerging NY artists to create challenging time-based works.