Artists Steffani Jemison + Justin Hicks
Performance: Friday, September 22 @ 8pm + Saturday, September 23 @ 2pm
Exhibition open till October 28

Another time, this time, one time features a series of new works made under the
umbrella of Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks Mikrokosmos”an ongoing collaborative
project that considers listening, language, and pedagogy through contemporary Black
American music. Using the solfge system of musical learning (do re mi) as a model,
Jemison and Hicks work dissects Gil Scott-Herons 1977 song We Almost Lost Detroit
into 61 melismatic gestures. Here, Black musical study is the subject and form of the
work, as these individual gestures are sequenced and performed as both melody and as
code.

This iteration of Mikrokosmos is produced by Western Front with additional support from
Nottingham Contemporary for a related exhibition and performance in 2018.

Artist biographies:

Justin Hicks is a composer, sound designer, and performer. His work has been
presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, PS122,
The Juilliard School,The Knitting Factory, Jack, Arlenes Grocery, Pianos and Bowery
Poetry Club. He was a member of Kara Walkers 6-8 Months Space and served as
performer and sound designer for Go/Forth (Please, Bury Me) by Kaneza Schaal.
Go/Forth premiered at PS122s Coil Festival in 2016 and will be presented as part of the
River to River Festival in June 2016. Hicks was a performer and sound designer for The
Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman and Charlotte Brathwaite and the Obie
Award-winning production of Prophetika: An Oratorio by Charlotte Brathwaite. His work
The Odetta Project: Waterboy and the Mighty World, was shown at Bowery Arts and
Science in 2014 and was featured during the Freedom Songs Festival: Which Side Are
You On, Friend? at Jack in 2015. Most recently, he served as musical director for
Steffani Jemisons Promise Machine (MoMA 2015). His album Scratches from Mercy is
available via Bandcamp.

Steffani Jemison was born in Berkeley, California, and is currently based in Brooklyn,
New York. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and
a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2003). She has served as a
visiting artist at many institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown
University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hampshire College, the Evergreen
State College, and Georgia State University. She has taught fine art at Columbia
University, Parsons The New School for Design, Wellesley College, Trinity College, Rice
University, the Cooper Union, and other institutions. She is the 2016-2017 Arthur J.
Levitt 52 Artist-in-Residence at Williams College.
Jemison uses time-based, photographic, and discursive platforms to examine progress
and its alternatives. Jemisons work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the
Studio Museum in Harlem, The Drawing Center, LAXART, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Bridget Donahue, Laurel
Gitlen,Team Gallery, and others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of
Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Kadist
Foundation.