[Rehearsing
for the premiere of Slang (Other Minds Festival of New Music,
San Francisco, 2011). Video stills from a forthcoming documentary on
Jason Moran by Gregg Conde and Radiclani Clytus. © Gregg Conde and
Radiclani Clytus; courtesy Gregg Conde]
2012
Biennial Residencies
BLEED,
2012
Live music and mixed-media installation
Commissioned by
the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for the 2012 Whitney
Biennial
For
their Biennial residency, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran present
five days of live music, exploring the power of performance to cross
barriers and challenge assumptions, as their title, BLEED,
suggests. With a line-up of concerts and events spanning music,
dance, theater, and literature, as well as an exhibition of past
video collaborations with Glenn Ligon, Joan Jonas, Kara Walker, and
Simone Leigh and Liz Magic Laser—and a new video by the cultural
historian Maurice Berger—BLEED
is a celebration of surprising synergy across the visual arts and
music.
The Morans’ decade-long artistic partnership is
perhaps the most poetic “sound bleed” of all. Alicia Hall Moran
is a Broadway musical actress and classically trained mezzo-soprano
of extraordinary warmth and eloquence; Jason Moran, a MacArthur
Fellow and the artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center, is an
acclaimed pianist/composer whose innovative style provides an
influential vision of what jazz can be in the twenty-first
century.
Free with Museum admission; no special ticketing
required.
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