Public performance between Ayana Sheree, DJ X-Rated, audience and I highlighting my thesis research and exhibition: Ah New Riddim at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project space (New York, NY), September 16, 2023.
Excerpts from my thesis research paper entitled “Ah New Riddim: A Marked (Black) Axiological Shift Across Space and Time” were read over the “Sleng Teng” riddim followed by a performance from East Flatbush Dancehall artist, Ayana Sheree.
Thesis Paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/151230
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Neptune reads excerpts from her master’s thesis over the Sleng Teng riddim at the exhibition closing reception.
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
“In retrospect, the experience was sublime. Over the course of the night, it was clear to see that ‘gyaffing’ and ‘liming’ had become a happening untinged by spectacle, an unassuming and slow-moving performance that activated ‘place.’ There is something palatable about that which intrigues me. As an art piece, it slowed down and disrupted processes of looking and understanding. Art viewing and spectator engagement became entangled within a two-way dialogic that broke down the exclusivity and statehood of the white cube. Art as a culturally marked happening dresses the familiar, an outcome I find highly affective” (Neptune, Thesis Monograph pg 36).
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Public performance by East Flatbush native and emerging dancehall artist, Ayana Sheree.
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Multichannel HD video, super 8mm and VHS transfer. 26 min TRT. Narrative excerpt of Christie Neptune's point of view from the ongoing series, Ah New Riddim.
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Read the Ah New Riddim: Thesis Edition Monograph [Here]
Link: http://bit.ly/4exuWB2
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang
Multichannel HD video, Super 8mm and VHS transfer
Featuring archival documentation of my father, DJ Kulcha.
Photo credit: Hai Zhang