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Courtesy the Artists (Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade)
Courtesy the Artists (Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade) 24 Hour Ballad
- Friday, November 15, 12:00 pm
- Saturday, November 16, 12:00 am
(24 hrs) Fri Nov 15, 12pm to Sat Nov 16, 12pm
Recess MAP
FREE
24 Hour Ballad takes a narrative folk ballad and expands its potential through performances and actions that continuously develop its content throughout the period of a day and night. A rotating group of invited artists and musicians will collaborate, using a shared-text as a starting point for exploration and improvisation. This performance is a central event in Trad, Courtesy the Artists’ two-month Session at Recess in Soho. The project is organized around the notion of “traditional” as an attribution in music. Trad. uses the idea of folk music as a publicly-accessible site that proposes an authorless yet culturally-situated model of production. The “folk” is a symbolic scheme that articulates a past filled with emotional and political content. While folk has been a dangerously segregating term, and its forms have been widely appropriated by avant-garde aesthetics, it’s a notion that may still offer insight into the place for art production within the common.
From Fri, Nov 15 at 12:00pm to Sat, Nov 16 at 12:00pm (24 hrs)
- Tue. Nov 12, 6:00 pm
- Wed. Nov 13, 8:30 pm
- Thu. Nov 14, 8:30 pm
- Tue. Nov 19, 8:30 pm
- Wed. Nov 20, 8:30 pm