James Allister Sprang A'13

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Audiovisual Installation: James Allister Sprang A'13 Rest Within the Wake (World Premiere) September 25 - September 30, 2023, Monday - Saturday at 7pm at the Baryshnikov Arts Center,
Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018.

Discount tickets for $25, for any shows from September 26 -September 30, 2023 are available to all Cooper Union students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Please use discount code STU25 (please note that there is no discount for the opening night show on September 25, 2023):

"The son of Caribbean immigrants, James Allister Sprang considers his relationship to Caribbean Diasporic timelines while weaving together multimedia work to create formal calls and responses that parallel the call and responses of Black storytelling traditions. His work is informed by the Black interior as well as radical, technological, and experimental performance histories. His audiovisual installation Rest Within the Wake features a monumental projection of blue images accompanied by an orchestral spiritual jazz composition written for 17 instruments while 60 feet beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea. Utilizing 4DSound, a new spatial sound technology, Rest Within the Wake invites us to listen deeply while welcoming our own bodies, our ancestors, our traumas, our pain, our longings, visions, and dreams."

For more information and to buy tickets, please click here. Remember to use the discount code STU25 for $25 tickets for any of the shows from September 26 - 30, 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

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