The final installment of Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s three-part Sonic Commons series—with this third event co-facilitated alongside troizel—explores what can be heard when voices are kept low. How does information and knowledge travel between the low-spoken, and when does that collective whisper crescendo into a shout, into a cry? CTHQ becomes a hub for dissident whispers. No recordings, no cameras. Just quiet conversations as sub-political modes of resistance.
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a New York-Based artist, composer, and performer considering notions of errant relations which thrive across subjectivities. Toussaint-Baptiste was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room and received a Bessie Award in 2018 for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design. He has presented visual and performance work at MoMA PS1; Performance Space New York; The Brooklyn Museum; The Kitchen; Issue Project Room; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; FringeArts, Philadelphia; Tanz Im August at Hau3, Berlin; Stoa Cultural Center, Helsinki among others. Toussaint-Baptiste is a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat!, and frequently collaborates with performers and visual artists including Will Rawls, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and André M. Zachery. Toussaint-Baptiste lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and holds an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts program.
troizel holds a Bachelor of Art, summa cum laude, in Theater Studies and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Emory University and a Master of Art and Master of Philosophy in Performance Studies from New York University. she received her PhD in Performance Studies with a dissertation entitled black performance studies: queer/trans experiments, which brings the study methods of Black queer and trans artists and theorists to bear on Black Studies, Performance Studies, and their intermingling called black performance studies. She does this as a way to provide models for how we can perform together to turn out and transform our social assumptions.
troizel was formerly a studio resident at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ, teaching artist fellow at New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, inaugural Museum Institute Scholar at Studio Museum in Harlem, alumna of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics’ New York Emerging Performers Program (EMERGENYC), and managing editor of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. she currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at Haverford College in Ardmore, PA and co-president of NYU’s Black Alumni Network.
