Curriculum II applies the ideas of Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, Nigerian-born writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, and Jamaican writer and cultural theorist
Sylvia Wynter. Curriculum II explores the historical and persistent connection between race and technology and the pursuit of what is human.
In The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, Louis Chude-Sokei quoted Sylvia Wynter: “The other must be understood as not just that which is oppressed or marginalized or rendered inhuman, subhuman, or animal; it also must be understood ‘as that which is to come.’” A poetic quilt of text, narration as philosophical lecture, live singing, and soundscore. Jones’s title is an ironic reference to Achille Mbembe’s 2018 interview by the Norwegian journalist Torbjorn Tumyr Nilsen, in which he said “For me, this is a matter of common sense. I am in favor of expanding the archive, reading the different archives of the world critically, each with and against the others. There can’t be any other meaning to a planetary curriculum.” This fertile notion inspired Bill T. Jones to undertake a series of works entitled Curriculum, juxtaposing formal exploration with a range of today’s urgent topics as expansive as Jones’s artistry. The series attempts to embrace formal directness and clarity while allowing it to be intruded upon by word fragments, imagery, and the stuff of Mbembe’s “planetary curriculum.”
Videos
Sing Out: AWT Throwbacks
Theater for the New City (6/9 - 6/16) | ||
Generations
Vino Theatre (6/14 - 6/30) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN NEW COMEDY
VIDEOS
| ||
Party Killer- An Immersive Whodunit Comedy
Asylum NYC (6/13 - 6/15)
PHOTOS
VIDEOS
| ||
I Hate the South, But I Love You: The Songs of Lain Walls
54 Below (6/12 - 6/12) | ||
Lone Wolf
Brooklyn Art Haus (6/6 - 6/16) NEW PLAY | ||
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Theater for the New City (6/7 - 6/16) | ||
The Last Neighbors Presents...
Caveat (6/22 - 6/22) | ||
Cherry's On Top!
The Green Room 42 (6/26 - 6/26) COMEDY
PHOTOS
| ||
Carnegie Hall Citywide: Natalie Tenenbaum
Times Square (6/13 - 6/13) | ||
FPA Presents: The Clive Awards - Staged Readings (Tiger Takeout)
Theatre Row (Theatre 3) (6/12 - 6/12) | ||
Danimal Live - Comedy Show & Screening
Littlefield (7/16 - 7/16) | ||
Ballet des Amériques Season Finale
Teatro LATEA (6/28 - 6/29) | ||
Dungeons and Drag Queens!
SoHo Playhouse (6/28 - 6/28) | ||
VIEW SHOWS ADD A SHOW |
Recommended For You