Student $7
General $10
April 8, 2025, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, April 8 at 7pm for an evening featuring Maxime Jean-Baptiste with World Records, presenting a performance by Jean-Baptiste, preceded by a screening of Under the Sky of Fetishes by Caroline Déodat. The program will conclude with a conversation between Jean-Baptiste, Yasmina Price, and LaCharles Ward about Black visual and sonic practices of refusal, historical counternarratives from the African diaspora, and Jean-Baptiste’s larger practice. This event accompanies the publication of World Records, Volume 9: Just Evidence.
Film
Caroline Déodat, Sous le ciel des fétiches (Under the Sky of Fetishes) (2023, 17 minutes)
Under the Sky of Fetishes addresses the complexity of showing the omnipresence of colonial archives. The film reinvests the specters of a haunting gaze to tell the story of Mauritian sega—a dance and music practice born during the period of slavery within communities of fugitives. How to project—literally bring out of oneself—the narrative of the aggressor?
Performance
Approached through Jean-Baptiste’s experience in playing the role of an extra in a BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables, and enveloped by the eponymous song by Nina Simone, Jean-Baptiste’s performance interrogates Western colonial histories and the afterlives of slavery in the mind, body, and soul of Black people, through strategies of archival reenactment and embodied memory grounded in the experiences of the Guyanese and West Indian diasporas in France.
This program is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [at] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.