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