Capeforce (UNTITLED)
Performance by Jordan Deal
Tuesday, May 27th, doors 7:00 pm, performance 8pmCapeforce (UNTITLED) is a continuing performance project Jordan Deal is exploring that is a response to Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger and Gay Guerilla compositions. Using devised scores and compositions, Deal’s aurals traverse genres from blues to avant-garde, channeling a blend of soulful defiance and speculative futurism. This work is a moving and shapeshifting work-in-progress performance piece, pulling and communicating with the ghosts that intersects with intimacy and love poetics.
About:
Jordan Deal (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary practitioner and conjurer. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, film, writing, sculpture, and their body as a conduit between unseen forces, socio-political structures, and anomalies. Through their use of speculative philosophy, punk tonalities, myth, and process-based research, they have developed an artistic/scholarly practice that bleeds into avant-theatrical performances, happenings, and sonic compositions. They utilize vocal and movement based improvisational techniques in order to harness and disperse a concept they call chaos force as a subversive material and methodology. Their shapeshifting forms are intended to experiment with embodied black queer futurity–rendering the space between fugitivity, subterranean landscapes, worldbuilding, resistance, and a love poetic. Through the use of collected and found field recordings, video/film documenta, and autobiographical myth fabrication, Deal explores language, dialectics, borders and territories; reproductive destruction; memory; and agency .
www.jordandealart.com