Concert

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste performs Julius Eastman

Name: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste performs Julius Eastman
Start: 2018-01-19T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-01-20T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Kitchen

This event ran from January 19 to January 20, 2018.

Part of Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental →

Artist, designer, and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste completed his ISSUE Project Room residency in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist LaMont Hamilton in a co-presentation at The Kitchen. The duo sequentially performed all five of their previously staged “parts” of Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition Evil Nigger as a 24-hour interpretive cycle, with select performances by Nyugen E. Smith and Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson. The work ran continuously from Friday to Saturday, with five publicly accessible segments.

“In this final and cumulative iteration, we are concluding our investigation of Julius Eastman as an archetypal trickster, specifically within the canon of Black American cultural practice. Here, by presenting previously standalone pieces sequentially, we are able to make explicit what Eastman referred as an ‘organic’ principle of performance, a cumulative process in which new sections of a work are overlapped with preceding sections, resulting in a dense, mounting-yet-nuanced simultaneity of expression: a pursuit through which we are able to further understand Eastman as complicating minimalist form, rather than reinforcing its emergent supremacy.” —Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

Program
Julius Eastman: Evil Nigger (1979)
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, piano, with LaMont Hamilton

Public segments
Friday, January 19, 8 to 9:30pm
Saturday, January 20, 12 to 1:30am
Saturday, January 20, 11:30am to 1pm
Saturday, January 20, 3 to 4:30pm
Saturday, January 20, 6:30 to 8pm

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a Bessie-nominated composer, designer and performer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. His work, through the lens of precarious labor, complicates notions of industry, identity, and environment and the implications of their intersections.

Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental was curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin Hurt, and presented by Bowerbird in collaboration with The Kitchen, in conjunction with the Eastman Estate.