Artistic Direction
menu2023
BIENNALE MUSICA 2023-MICRO-MUSIC-TEATRO ALLE TESE-LA NOTTE DI BATTITI
LA NOTTE DI BATTITI - JJJJJEROME ELLIS / LAMIN FOFANA / JACE CLAYTON AKA DJ/RUPTURE
JJJJJEROME ELLIS
LIVE: 2023, 45’, world premiere
Concept: JJJJJerome Ellis
LAMIN FOFANA
SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT
2023, 60’, world premiere
Concept: Lamin Fofana
JACE CLAYTON AKA DJ/RUPTURE
JULIUS EASTMAN MEMORIAL DINNER: 2023, 60’, Italian premiere
Concept, arrangement, electronics: Jace Clayton
Piano: David Friend, Emily Manzo
Hosted by: Pino Saulo
Light and set design: Theresa Baumgartner
In collaboration with: Rai Radio 3 - Battiti
Production: La Biennale di Venezia
JJJJJEROME ELLIS
LIVE: 2023, 45’, world premiere
Concept: JJJJJerome Ellis
LAMIN FOFANA
SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT
2023, 60’, world premiere
Concept: Lamin Fofana
JACE CLAYTON AKA DJ/RUPTURE
JULIUS EASTMAN MEMORIAL DINNER: 2023, 60’, Italian premiere
Concept, arrangement, electronics: Jace Clayton
Piano: David Friend, Emily Manzo
Hosted by: Pino Saulo
Light and set design: Theresa Baumgartner
In collaboration with: Rai Radio 3 - Battiti
Production: La Biennale di Venezia
JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, artist, and proud stutterer. Through music, literature, performance, and video he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time.
Shafts of Sunlight is an open-ended improvisatory performance-installation with fragments and debris from extended studio sessions. It is a disruption of the linearity of historical time, what historian Robin Kelley refers to as blues time; it is simultaneously in the moment, the past, the future, and the timeless space of the imagination.
Conceived for twin pianos, live electronics, and voice, this exhilarating sonic exploration led by Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ/rupture, brings fresh insight to the artistic legacy of Julius Eastman, the mercurial gay African American composer who mixed canny minimalist innovation with head-on political provocation. The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner is built around new arrangements of Evil Nigger (1979) and Gay Guerrilla (1980) by Eastman.
Shafts of Sunlight is an open-ended improvisatory performance-installation with fragments and debris from extended studio sessions. It is a disruption of the linearity of historical time, what historian Robin Kelley refers to as blues time; it is simultaneously in the moment, the past, the future, and the timeless space of the imagination.
Conceived for twin pianos, live electronics, and voice, this exhilarating sonic exploration led by Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ/rupture, brings fresh insight to the artistic legacy of Julius Eastman, the mercurial gay African American composer who mixed canny minimalist innovation with head-on political provocation. The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner is built around new arrangements of Evil Nigger (1979) and Gay Guerrilla (1980) by Eastman.
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