In collaboration with Hauser & Wirth.
LOOKOUT FM recorded and broadcast Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s performance/installation ‘Unmarked Car (S.L.A.B.), pt. 2’ on the occasion of ‘Jason Rhoades. DRIVE’: a yearlong exhibition that features cars as readymade works of art at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles .
Toussaint-Baptiste’s mobile sculpture is a decommissioned Ford Crown Victoria—with tinted windows and a carceral security barrier—that has been transformed from an object of surveillance and violence into a low-frequency musical instrument and amplifier of Black cultural practice.
About Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a New York-based artist, composer, and performer. Their work considers notions of errant relations that thrive across subjectivities. Toussaint-Baptiste was a 2017 artist in residence at Issue Project Room and received a Bessie Award in 2018 for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design. They are represented by Martos Gallery (New York). They presented visual and performance work at MoMA PS1 (New York); Performance Space New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Kitchen (New York); Issue Project Room (New York); the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Toussaint-Baptiste is a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat! and frequently collaborates with performers and visual artists, including Will Rawls, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Tiona NekkiaMcClodden, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and André M. Zachery. Toussaint-Baptiste holds an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts program.
LOOKOUT FM recorded and broadcast Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste’s performance/installation ‘Unmarked Car (S.L.A.B.), pt. 2’ on the occasion of ‘Jason Rhoades. DRIVE’: a yearlong exhibition that features cars as readymade works of art at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles .
Toussaint-Baptiste’s mobile sculpture is a decommissioned Ford Crown Victoria—with tinted windows and a carceral security barrier—that has been transformed from an object of surveillance and violence into a low-frequency musical instrument and amplifier of Black cultural practice.
About Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a New York-based artist, composer, and performer. Their work considers notions of errant relations that thrive across subjectivities. Toussaint-Baptiste was a 2017 artist in residence at Issue Project Room and received a Bessie Award in 2018 for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design. They are represented by Martos Gallery (New York). They presented visual and performance work at MoMA PS1 (New York); Performance Space New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Kitchen (New York); Issue Project Room (New York); the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Toussaint-Baptiste is a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat! and frequently collaborates with performers and visual artists, including Will Rawls, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Tiona NekkiaMcClodden, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and André M. Zachery. Toussaint-Baptiste holds an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts program.
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