Lecture here: https://youtu.be/zfOJHlszQj8

Exploring the relationship between Afrofuturism and Gesamtkunstwerk through the art-music of Sun Ra and Wagner

THU 12 Jan 2017
8PM-11PM
Tape Projects
1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton

A joint project by Cyclopes, Liquid Architecture and Crown Ruler. 

Hannah Catherine Jones is a London-based artist, researcher, radio presenter, composer and conductor, and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra.

Jones often performs under the pseudonym Foxy Moron, creating works that juxtapose ancient musical modalities (Mixolydian, Phrygian) with sci-fi timbres to produce what she calls ‘sonic antagonisms’. These ‘sounds in opposition’ are a vehicle for the artist to think through both the painful legacies of slavery and its continuing affects and effect, and also the conceptual possibilities of Afrofuturism – re-imagining the past whilst simultaneously looking towards the future. Foxy Moron performances are often sung in Zulu, reflecting the artist’s Caribbean/South African heritage and are understood by Jones as “a form of self-reparation – re-educating myself through decolonization.”

In this special lecture-performance Hannah Catherine Jones AKA Foxy Moron used theremin, voice and video to speculatively explore the relationship between Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism and Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk, the subject of her doctoral research at University of Oxford.

Lecture/performance recorded by Liquid Architecture.

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