Isolated Field Recordings Series

Isolated Field Recording Series: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste - 9 a.m. (Eternal)

Thu 23 Apr, 2020, 8pm
Streaming on this webpage, Vimeo, and Facebook Live



Thursday, April 23rd, ISSUE is pleased to present 9 a.m. (Eternal)*, a recording from artist, composer, performer, and 2017 Artist-In-Residence Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. The piece is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.

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.

9 a.m. (Eternal 1): Intro begins at 8pm EST; 9 a.m. (Eternal 2): Outro begins 40 minutes after.

*For the initial webstream on April 23rd 8pm EST, 9 a.m. (Eternal 1): Intro and 9 a.m. (Eternal 2): Outro will be played sequentially. After being made available via ISSUE’s archive, they may be listened to sequentially or played concurrently on separate devices.

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a New York-Based artist, composer, and performer considering notions of errant relations which thrive across subjectivities. Toussaint-Baptiste was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and received a Bessie Award in 2018 for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design. He has presented visual and performance work at MoMA PS1; Performance Space New York; The Brooklyn Museum; The Kitchen; Issue Project Room; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; FringeArts, Philadelphia; Tanz Im August at Hau3, Berlin; Stoa Cultural Center, Helsinki among others. Toussaint-Baptiste is a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat!, and frequently collaborates with performers and visual artists including Will Rawls, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and André M. Zachery. Toussaint-Baptiste lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and holds an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts program.

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In response to COVID-19’s impact on public assembly and our subsequent suspension of public programming, ISSUE’s Isolated Field Recordings Series commissions artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. The series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing. The series will include forthcoming presentations by Qualiatik (4/29), Shelley Hirsch (4/30), Bergsonist (⅚), Andrew Lampert (5/7), Derek Baron (5/13), Jules Gimbrone (5/14), and Kim Brandt (5/20). All times are 8pm EST.

ISSUE Project Room's Isolated Field Recording Series is supported, in part, by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation.

As a part of ISSUE Project Room’s ongoing 2020 Spring Season, this series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. ISSUE gratefully acknowledges additional 2020 Spring Season support from NOKIA Bell Labs, The Golden Rule Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and TD Charitable Foundation.

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