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
The Hourglass
The Rat NYC (11/1 - 11/2) | ||
Dvorak: Chamber Music Survey, Sullivan Qt
Bohemian National Hall NYC (11/12 - 11/12) CONCERT | ||
Goodbye Doctor
The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre: A.R.T./New York Theatres (10/24 - 11/3) NEW PLAY
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After the Revolution
Morningside Players Theater Co. (10/17 - 11/3) | ||
Learning to Human
Theatre Row (11/6 - 11/6) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN
PHOTOS
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Cool Stories vol 9
Marjorie S Deane Little/The YMCA (11/22 - 11/22) COMEDY NEW PLAY | ||
Dreams on 81
The Secret Theatre (11/14 - 11/16) NEW PLAY | ||
3rd Gen- A Survivor's Story
KnJ Theater (11/16 - 11/17)
PHOTOS
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CLASSICS IN SHORT
Mitu Theater (11/18 - 11/18)
PHOTOS
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Piano Panties: A Cheeky Cabaret Show
Sid Gold’s Request Room (7/2 - 12/30) | ||
Tin Church
Chain Theatre (10/23 - 11/23) NEW PLAY
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Martha Wash: Love & Conflict
Joe's Pub New York (2/14 - 2/14) | ||
Medea: A Musical Comedy
Actors Temple Theatre (10/10 - 2/1) | ||
AUDREY APPLEBY/ Life…A Seduction Tour
Pangea Supper Club NYC (11/2 - 11/2) | ||
VISIONS Contemporary Ballet presents For Love's Sake
The Riverside Theater (11/15 - 11/17) | ||
Messy Millie
The 92nd Street Y, New York (5/3 - 5/18) | ||
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