Jordan Deal

Jordan Deal (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist whose work defies conventional boundaries. Using their body as a conduit, Deal navigates the intersections of performance, sound, and film to explore the forces that shape socio-political structures and mythologies. Deal has presented performance work internationally, such as at Radialsystem (Berlin) as part of CTM Festival, Cafe OTO (London), Performing Arts Forum (France), Performance Mix Festival (NYC), Judson Memorial Church (NYC), the Center for Performance Research (NYC), Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia), and The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds Performance Festival (NYC). They have exhibited sculptural and sonic installations throughout Philadelphia and New York and have recently been selected as a 2023-2024 Artistic Fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Deal is a 2024 recipient of the MAPFund Grant and were invited to be a 2024 recipient of the BASC residency and performer in the Performance Mix Festival #38. They were a Fall 2022 research fellow at Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, New York. Deal’s films have been part of selections in Blackstar Film Festival, Icebox Project Space, Vox Populi, Center of Performance Research, LA Indie Fest, and Paris Film Festival.

Deal recently released their new full LP titled Seas of Triple Consciousness with London-based record label Horn of Plenty Records this past September. Their last album under ROSEKILLJUPITER titled GOGO UNDERWORLD, was released in 2022 with Cor Ardens.
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

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