Artists Studio: Jasper Marsalis / Slauson Malone 1

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

JASPER MARSALIS

Working across painting, performance, sculpture, sound and music, Jasper Marsalis (b. 1995 in Los Angeles, CA, US) elaborates a parallel between the space of painting and performer on stage. As a musician, he performs under the moniker Slauson Malone 1, recently releasing his second album EXCELSIOR on Warp Records. Upcoming performances include Roskilde Festival, Denmark, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, and Haus der Kunst, Munich; upcoming exhibitions include Aspen Art Museum.

NICKY WETHERELL

Nicholas John Wetherell is a musician and songwriter based in New York City. In his cello playing he explores the textural range of the instrument, combining acoustic and electric elements to create visceral sounds and sonic environments. He plays a variety of instruments including guitar, fiddle, and banjo, and has recorded two full-length albums. He teaches in New York.

PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Andrew Lulling Audio Engineer

Anthony Konigbagbe Art Director

Backline by Studio Instrument Rental

Steinway & Sons

ARTWORK

The previous pages have been created and curated by the artist, Jasper Marsalis, as a complement to this evening’s program.

Front Cover: Performer, Jasper Marsalis 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Kirstina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles; photo: Paul Salveson.

Pages 2 – 3: addendum, Jasper Marsalis 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by The Simpsons Season 7, Episode 136 “Mother Simpson,” 1995 and Pope. L. Hole Theory 2002.

Page 4: Stadium, Jasper Marsalis, Kalle Wadzinski 2020; and rock, Jasper Marsalis 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by vinyl of “Star” by Erasure, on Mute Records Ltd, 1990.

Page 5: [insert title here], Jasper Marsalis 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by “Two Thousand Seasons.” Timmhotep Aku, Armah, Ayi Kwei. 1973.

Page 6: “Excelsior!” Punch (13 Jul 1910): 21.

Page 7: rock, Jasper Marsalis, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by The Stonebreakers, Gustave Courbet 1849 and Lahren, Tomi. “Even in you smash…” X 2018.

Page 8: rock, Jasper Marsalis 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by “Guitar Drag” by Christian Marclay, 1999.

Page 9: rock, Jasper Marsalis, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, BBH Entertainment/RAW, 2022.

Back Cover: Performer, Jasper Marsalis 2022. Courtesy the artist and Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles; photo: Paul Salveson.

2024 ARTISTS STUDIO

IN THE RESTORED VETERANS ROOM

JASPER MARSALIS / SLAUSON MALONE 1

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 7:30PM

Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 7:30PM

featuring cellist Nicky Wetherell

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Thompson Family Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, Wescustogo Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, Mary W. Harriman Foundation, the Reed Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS STUDIO

Launched in March 2016 alongside the inauguration of the revitalized Veterans Room, the Artists Studio serves as a space for artists to experiment, collaborate, create, and push the boundaries of their craft. This season, the series takes inspiration from the inventive spirit and collaboration present at the room’s inception with interventions by some of today’s most creative voices who have a distinct relationship to sound with a visual aesthetic. Curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran, these performances invite these imaginative innovators to explore exciting new directions in their practice. Previous Artists Studio programs have featured performances by: jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; Dutch contemporary composer Louis Andriessen and pianist Jason Moran; American composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros and noted author, director, and dream specialist IONE; pianist and composer Conrad Tao and multifaceted percussionist, instrumentalist, and composer Tyshawn Sorey; seminal drummer and acupuncturist Milford Graves and drummer and musician Deantoni Parks; artist Lucy Raven; groundbreaking sound designer Ryan Trecartin with his primary collaborator Lizzie Fitch, music producer and DJ Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom), and composer/ producer Aaron David Ross; acoustic ensemble Dawn of Midi; composer Ryuichi Sakamoto;

NEXT IN THE SERIES MOOR MOTHER AND IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS

MAY 18

American poet, musician, and activist Moor Mother comes to the Veterans Room with two distinct programs: following a solo set of fringe and avant-garde sonic landscapes rooted in industrial, electronic, noise, punk and hip-hop, she is joined by Irreversible Entanglements (IE), a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality that plays deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment.

tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianists Myra Huang and Jason Moran; multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome; vocalist Dominique Eade and pianist Ran Blake with composer Kavita Shah ; experimental composer Alvin Curran; internationally renowned composer, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixedmedia practitioner Matana Roberts; pioneer of experimental music Charlemagne Palestine; art icon and DJ Juliana Huxtable; composer and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell; experimental composer, improviser, and performer Miya Masaoka; My Barbarian collective founders Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade; cutting edge visual artist Rosa Barba ; Dominican accordionist Krency Garcia (El Prodigio); the late trumpeter jaimie branch and visual artist Carol Szymanski; pioneer of performance and video art Joan Jonas; conceptual artist, writer, and performer, Rodney McMillian; and a full season residency by the revolutionary collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM), featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill, drummer and percussionist Thurman Barker, musical partners Adegoke Steve Colson and Iqua Colson, scholar and composer George Lewis, composer and percussionist Reggie Nicholson, and multidimensional artist and creator Amina Claudine Myers.

EJ HILL: ANTHEMS FOR THE RESOLUTE WHEN THE SKY IS EMPTY SEPTEMBER

20 & 21

Performance artist EJ Hill comes to the Veterans Room with a team of his primary collaborators Frey Austin, Carson Childs, Quincie Mychelle Lewis, and Alexander Margarite to create an evening of song, storytelling, and sonic exploration. Collectively, they weave together their individual influences and practices to offer musical constellations which sprawl between disaster and desire.

NEXT AT THE ARMORY

MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY RICHARD KENNEDY: GUTTURAL (CONDUCTED CONTACT)

APRIL 12

As a capstone of the Radical Practice of Black Curation symposium in collaboration with Princeton University, multidisciplinary artist Richard Kennedy presents a musical encapsulation of the African diaspora in the Armory’s historic rooms. Titled Guttural (Conducted Contact), this new work opens a portal of participatory gathering as truth emerges through song, dance, and a series of wordless conversations with Afro-Brazilian dancer Vera Passos.

RECITAL SERIES MATTHEW POLENZANI & KEN NODA

MAY 20 & 22

American tenor Matthew Polenzani comes to the Armory with a program of lieder and art songs that offer audiences the chance to get to know the beauty of his sound, the musicality of his legato, the suppleness of his phrasing, and the clarity of his diction in one of the only spaces that could provide such a personal encounter—the Board of Officers Room.

SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER

MAY 21

WORLD PREMIERE

The Oxford Bach Soloists under the music direction of Tom Hammond-Davies and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street are joined by countertenor Reginald Mobley, tenor Nick Pritchard, and sheng player Wu Tong to perform a selection of Bach cantatas intermingled with spirituals in a staging by the celebrated director Peter Sellars. This musical call to action, presented in collaboration with the Asia Society, illuminates the undeniable truth that water is life, and that music is a universal language that can unite and inspire.

MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY ANTAGONISMS

JUNE 1

Led by playwright and poet Claudia Rankine, this symposium is punctuated with performances, panels, investigations of group dynamics, as well as imagined conversations between revolutionary thinkers. Participants include renowned postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, acclaimed cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, and Guggenheim fellow and choreographer Shamel Pitts.

INSIDE LIGHT

JUNE

5–15

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Karlheinz Stockhausen’s magnum opus Licht—a seven opera cycle each representing a day of the week—is an epic 29-hour work for vocal, instrumental, and electronic forces that is rarely performed given its length and the different configurations of musicians and spaces needed. Several electronic compositions from this opus, performed by one of his original collaborators Kathinka Pasveer, are presented as two parts on separate evenings or in a full marathon with transformative lighting and video projections to fully immerse the audience in the all-encompassing, octophonic sound and surroundings in the vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory supports unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall—reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations—and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory provides a platform for artists to push the boundaries of their practice, collaborate across disciplines, and create new work in dialogue with the historic building. Across its grand and intimate spaces, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York.

The Armory both commissions and presents performances and installations in the grand Drill Hall and offers more intimate programming through its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; its Artists Studio series curated by Jason Moran in the restored Veterans Room; Making Space at the Armory, a public programming series that brings together a discipline-spanning group of artists and cultural thought-leaders around the important issues of our time; and the Malkin Lecture Series that features presentations by scholars and writers on topics related to Park Avenue Armory and its history.

In addition, the Armory also has a year-round Artists-in-Residence program, providing space and support for artists to create new work and expand their practices.

The Armory’s creativity-based arts education programs provide access to the arts to thousands of students from underserved New York City public schools, engaging them with the institutions artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes. Through its education initiatives, the Armory provides access to all Drill Hall performances, workshops taught by Master Teaching Artists, and in-depth residencies that support the schools’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid internship program, begins in high school and continues into the critical post-high school years, providing interns with mentored employment, job training, and skill development, as well as a network of peers and mentors to support their individual college and career goals.

The Armory is undergoing a multi-phase renovation and restoration of its historic building led by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Executive Architects.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman Emeritus

Elihu Rose

Co-Chairs

Adam R. Flatto

Amanda J.T. Riegel

Vice Presidents

David Fox

Pablo Legorreta

Emanuel Stern

Treasurer

Emanuel Stern

Marina Abramović

Abigail Baratta

Joyce F. Brown

Cora Cahan

Hélène Comfort

Paul Cronson

Jonathan Davis

Tina R. Davis

Jessie Ding

Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

Roberta Garza

Kim Greenberg

Samhita Jayanti

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.)

Ralph Lemon

Jason Moran

Janet C. Ross

Stephanie Sharp

Joan Steinberg

Dabie Tsai

Avant-Garde Chair

Adrienne Katz

Directors Emeriti

Harrison M. Bains

Angela E. Thompson*

Wade F.B. Thompson*

Founding Chairman, 2000-2009

Pierre Audi

Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director