Seminar
Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism
Dec 6, 2021
6:00–7:30pm ET
A bridge that serves as structure for music, that functions as both practice and protocol, lends this program its title. Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism draws on such musical structures as the bridge (following Nahum Dimitri Chandler’s remarks on Cecil Taylor) as well as its classical precedent, the call and response, to articulate various protocols of jazz and modern music.
Convened with curator Serubiri Moses, the discussion centers on the contributions of major thinkers and artists in the field of jazz and critical theory. It spans the deterritorialization of modernism, the ownership of jazz, and the protocols of bridge(ing). Drawing on art historian Huey Copeland’s concept of feasting on scraps as well as former VLC Fellow and art historian Kobena Mercer’s concept of dialogics of diaspora, this exchange cuts across multiple geographies through various entanglements of thought and practice. It aims at fulfilling the structure of jazz described as call and response by critic Amiri Baraka.
Participants:
Those registered and
Raymond Pinto, performance artist
Tendayi Sithole, Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa
Yoko Suzuki, saxophonist and scholar
Convened with Serubiri Moses, independent curator
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Led by Vera List Center faculty and staff, each monthly seminar in this year-long series is convened with a partner organization, collective or independent curator to examine a particular aspect of protocols, among them those relating to aerial surveillance, platform cooperativism, and jazz and modernism, enacting protocols and ethics for collaboration. Building on last year’s collaboration with The New School faculty and conversations started in previous sessions, each seminar is centered by an art project and accompanied by readings. It is presented as part of the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy series and supported by the Daisy Schapiro Lectureship.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. As part of that commitment, this event features close captioning subtitles and ASL interpretation. Please let us know when registering if you need any additional accommodation.
The Fall 2021 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, individual donors as well as the following institutional funders:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Boris Lurie Art Foundation
Dayton Foundation
Ford Foundation
Kettering Fund
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Pryor Cashman LLP
and
The New School
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Seminar Overview
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Sep 14, 2020–May 16, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication
Sep 14, 2020
Seminar
Seminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]
Oct 19, 2020
Panel, Screening
Seminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and Plagues
Nov 16, 2020
Seminar
Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Feb 8, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
Mar 8, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment
Apr 5, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View
Sep 20, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives
