I don't believe in culture ... I believe in encounters. -- Gilles Deleuze

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste symposium

Saturday January 18th 2-4 pm

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Ryan C. Clarke is a tonal geologist from the southeastern banks of the Mississippi. His work in the field of Progressive Geology proposes counter-architectures of sociality based on the morphological processes of the Earth itself. His writings and lectures have been published by E-flux, Rhizome, Terraforma, Harvard, and Dweller Electronics where he is a co-editor.

Mat Keel is a critical political ecologist and a sculptor, and currently an ABD PhD candidate at LSU. He is trained in Anthropology and Geography with several publications and holds degrees from U-Mass Amherst and UCLA. His current research proposes the viability of non-representational ethnography, and focuses broadly on Gulf Coast plantation afterlives and their quotidian reproduction.

Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution. As performer, curator, and broadcaster, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of an emergent radical music community bridging avant garde jazz, electronic noise, and empire-bashing beats. Dr. Stanley is assistant professor in George Mason University’s School of Art where he teaches classes in sound art, sound studies, and critical theory. Stanley theorizes an affective dimension to our experience of historical flow that can be accessed and activated by audio culture. In the musical practice of Black improvisation, Stanley has found ways of engaging historical epochs the world has yet to fully enter. Stanley’s lectures and performances activate our migration out of stagnant historical narratives of oppression and exclusion.

Chris Taylor was born in West Germany, raised in Southwest Florida waters, and lives in the arid American Southwest. An architect, educator, and director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, Taylor is deeply committed to the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of the planet. Terminal Lake Exploration Platform, created with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, continues to facilitate visual and performative research within under-examined basins and internal aquatic fringes. Taylor studied architecture at the University of Florida and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and is a member of the Lubbock Scapes Collective.

 

This exhibition has been made possible with financial support from  Greater Baton Rouge Arts Council and The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, as well as the LSU School of Art and the LSU School of Music.