Jason Moran
Sept 20, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Collaborations
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Collaboration has been central to Moran’s experiments, and among the many artists with whom he has collaborated include The Bandwagon (Tarus Mateen and Nasheet Waits), Stan Douglas, Lizzie Fitch, Theaster Gates, Joan Jonas, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Ashland Mines (Total Freedom), Alicia Hall Moran, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Ryan Trecartin, Kara Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Carrie Mae Weems
Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me—A Story in 5 Parts, 2012
Carrie Mae Weems, still from Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me–A Story in 5 Parts, 2012. Video, color, sound; 18:08 min. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems’s Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me—A Story in 5 Parts is a video installation that uses a nineteenth-century special effect called Pepper’s Ghost to create transparent, spectral images. The video displayed here is just one part of a larger work composed of physical theatrical elements. Weems captures various ghostly figures in the piece, including a Playboy bunny, a civil rights protester, and an American president, most of whom are played by the artist. The soundscape includes pop music, recitations of the Gettysburg Address, the reflections of a minstrel performer, electronic-infused blues, and a piano composition by Jason Moran.