Hannah Catherine Jones AKA Foxy Moron
Afrofuturism and Gesamtkunstwerk
www.foxymoron.co.uk
Audio only: soundcloud.com/wearecyclopes/hannah-catherine-jones-aka-foxy-moron-afrofuturism-and-gesamtkunstwerk
Recorded live @ Tape Projects in Melbourne
THU 12 JAN 2017
A joint project by Cyclopes, Liquid Architecture and Crown Ruler
Hannah Catherine Jones is a London-based artist, researcher, radio presenter, composer and conductor, and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra.
Jones often performs under the pseudonym Foxy Moron, creating works that juxtapose ancient musical modalities (Mixolydian, Phrygian) with sci-fi timbres to produce what she calls ‘sonic antagonisms’. These ‘sounds in opposition’ are a vehicle for the artist to think through both the painful legacies of slavery and its continuing affects and effect, and also the conceptual possibilities of Afrofuturism - re-imagining the past whilst simultaneously looking towards the future. Foxy Moron performances are often sung in Zulu, reflecting the artist’s Caribbean/South African heritage and are understood by Jones as “a form of self-reparation - re-educating myself through decolonization.”
In this special lecture-performance Hannah Catherine Jones AKA Foxy Moron used theremin, voice and video to speculatively explore the relationship between Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism and Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk, the subject of her doctoral research at University of Oxford.
Introduction by Lucreccia Quintanilla, an artist and researcher who grew up in New York and El Salvador, coming to Australia at age 15. In recent years she has been exploring Jamaican Soundsystem cultures as a point of departure for thinking through cultural difference, collaboration, feminism, music/sound experimentation, and art.
www.wearecyclopes.com/
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/
www.crownruler.com/