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

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

December 14th 2024 - February 1st 2025

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Opening Reception Saturday December 14th 5-7 pm

Going To See A Man About A Horse

The exhibition explores Black Sites, or “Sigh/tes,” as both a poetic(s) and an imperative.

Artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste returns to their native city where they offer a new multi-sited engagement around ongoing themes that are central to their practice. At two locations — 1600 Government St and a second, decided-upon-but-not-yet-public site — the artist presents a series of performances that continue their work with decommissioned police sound technologies.

These works are presented alongside “mules,” a series of sculptural configurations where a collection of charged objects, built by the artist over a 10-year period using eBay, prompts questions about the efficacy and limits of contemporary and historic systems of value and speculation as they relate to bodies, objects, and sites.

A panel discussion featuring the artist in conversation with RC Clarke (New Orleans), Dr. Thomas Stanley (George Mason), Chris Taylor (Land Arts of the American West, Texas Tech), and Mat Keel (Yes We Cannibal / LSU) is tentatively scheduled for January 18th in Baton Rouge.

The exhibition will also coincide with the debut of a forthcoming print atlas of real and imagined Black Sigh/tes created by the artist for the event. It will include a new essay by Andrea Andersson of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought (New Orleans) and the transcription of a conversation between the artist and activist Laramie Griffin (eVOLVe). It will also will take place during the artist’s tenure as the inaugural fellow for Triple Canopy (New York City).

The atlas may be pre-ordered and will ship around March 15th, 2025.

About the Artist

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s work, spanning roles as artist, composer, and performer, considers errant relations that push toward the limits of subjectivity. Toussaint-Baptiste’s fellowships and awards include the Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence, Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design, the Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center, Issue Project Room 2017 Artist-In-Residence, and the Rauschenberg Residency 381 Residency.

Recent exhibitions and performances include Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, California; The Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Performance Space, New York, New York; The Kitchen, Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.

Toussaint-Baptiste is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture & Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University and current Triple Canopy Fellow.

https://www.jeremytoussaintbaptiste.com/

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.