On Sunday, February 2, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 series is happy to partner with Yes We Cannibal in hosting a symposium discussing Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s “Going to See a Man About a Horse.” This event will be open to all, free of charge.
Taking place December 14, 2024 - February 4, 2025, artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste returns to their native city where they offer a new multi-sited engagement around ongoing themes that are central to their practice. At two locations — 1600 Government St and a second, decided-upon-but-not-yet-public site — the artist presents a series of performances that continue their work with decommissioned police sound technologies.
These works are presented alongside “mules,” a series of sculptural configurations where a collection of charged objects, built by the artist over a 10-year period using eBay, prompts questions about the efficacy and limits of contemporary and historic systems of value and speculation as they relate to bodies, objects, and sites. Learn more about the exhibition
ABOUT JEREMY TOUSSAINT-BAPTSITE:
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s work, spanning roles as artist, composer, and performer, considers errant relations that push toward the limits of subjectivity. Toussaint-Baptiste’s fellowships and awards include the Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence, Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design, the Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center, Issue Project Room 2017 Artist-In-Residence, and the Rauschenberg Residency 381 Residency.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, California; The Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Performance Space, New York, New York; The Kitchen, Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.
Sitting in conversation DURING the symposium:
Ryan C. Clarke is a tonal geologist from the southeastern banks of the Mississippi. His work in the field of Progressive Geology proposes counter-architectures of sociality based on the morphological processes of the Earth itself. His writings and lectures have been published by E-flux, Rhizome, Terraforma, Harvard, and Dweller Electronics where he is a co-editor.
Mat Keel is a critical political ecologist and a sculptor, and currently an ABD PhD candidate at LSU. He is trained in Anthropology and Geography with several publications and holds degrees from U-Mass Amherst and UCLA. His current research proposes the viability of non-representational ethnography, and focuses broadly on Gulf Coast plantation afterlives and their quotidian reproduction.
Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution. As performer, curator, and broadcaster, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of an emergent radical music community bridging avant garde jazz, electronic noise, and empire-bashing beats. Dr. Stanley is assistant professor in George Mason University’s School of Art where he teaches classes in sound art, sound studies, and critical theory. Stanley theorizes an affective dimension to our experience of historical flow that can be accessed and activated by audio culture. In the musical practice of Black improvisation, Stanley has found ways of engaging historical epochs the world has yet to fully enter. Stanley’s lectures and performances activate our migration out of stagnant historical narratives of oppression and exclusion.
Chris Taylor was born in West Germany, raised in Southwest Florida waters, and lives in the arid American Southwest. An architect, educator, and director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, Taylor is deeply committed to the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of the planet. Terminal Lake Exploration Platform, created with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, continues to facilitate visual and performative research within under-examined basins and internal aquatic fringes. Taylor studied architecture at the University of Florida and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and is a member of the Lubbock Scapes Collective.
‘Going to See a Man About a Horse’ has been made possible with financial support from Greater Baton Rouge Arts Council and The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, the LSU School of Art and the LSU School of Music and Baton Rouge Gallery
Sundays@4 is presented in partnership with the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area whose mission is to enhance the identity of our unique American landscape by preserving and promoting our heritage and by fostering progress for local champions that create authentic, powerful connections between people, culture, and the environment.