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.
Joan Jonas and Jason Moran
Excerpts from Antiphony: Joan Jonas x Jason Moran, 2013
Joan Jonas performing Reanimation at the Hangar Bicocca, Milan, 2014. Photograph by Moira Ricci. © 2018 Joan Jonas/Arts Rights Society (ARS) New York
Antiphony is an excerpt from a planned documentary entitled Grammar—A Documentary Film about Jazz through Jason Moran. A musical term, antiphony describes a two-part composition in which singers alternate and respond to each other’s verses. Riffing on this word, the film explores the relationship between Moran and the performance/video art pioneer Joan Jonas. The two artists reflect on their collaborative projects, and on how they improvise with sound, time, and visual images to create compelling performances. Most prominently, the film foregrounds Reanimation (2012), a collaboration between the two artists in which their actions onstage were projected via a live feed.