Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Site: St. Louis Hop Shop
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste has composed a new site-responsive structure and sonic environment, Get Low, within the St. Louis Hop Shop. Occupying a brightly lit retail environment adjacent to the neighborhood’s most active intersection, Get Low is an affective sonic environment that offers an intimate moment of refuge, contemplation, pleasure, and resistance, where—even if only temporarily—individuals might escape the weight and pitfalls of visibility as they go about their day.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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.
