Nottingham Contemporary is pleased to present Mikrokosmos: Another time, this time, one time, a newly commissioned performance by Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks.
Part study session, part funk band, part opera, Mikrokosmos mines the canon of black American music. This performance uses Gil Scott-Heron’s “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting. Like a game in which new words are formed from existing letters, these live compositions and re-compositions take the form of musical studies, samples, and improvisations. Inspired by Scott-Heron’s own ambitious songbook, Jemison and Hicks reflect upon a wide range of subjects, including Scott-Heron’s biography, police violence in the United States, and the nuclear catastrophe that threatened the city of Detroit in 1966.
In their performances and community collaborations, Hicks and Jemison consider listening, language, and learning through contemporary black American music. Mikrokosmos: Another time, this time, one time culminates a year of workshops and performances by Jemison, commissioned by Nottingham Contemporary, that consider the limits of speech and the politics of quiet, focusing on black American experience.
Performed by Steffani Jemison, Justin Hicks and Starr Busby.
Nottingham Contemporary is pleased to present Mikrokosmos: Another time, this time, one time, a newly commissioned performance by Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks.
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