Part of the Practice
What is social practice, and how does it affect the ways we navigate our lives and make change in the world? Join artists, scholars, and collaborators from Social Practice CUNY on Part of the Practice, hosted by Catherine LaSota, as we discuss our individual art practices, our communities, and the role of socially-engaged art in our work for social justice.
Part of the Practice
09: Ghosts in the Archive with Kerosene Jones
In this episode of Part of the Practice, host Catherine LaSota is in conversation with Kerosene Jones, an interdisciplinary artist and MFA student in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College. Jones discusses the role of intuition in his archival work, his relationship with extended vocal technique as a practice, and the ways that he builds community as an editor and a curator. Jones also discusses his practice in relationship to his own experience with opioid addiction, and the power of catalyzing rage and a recalibration of what is possible through communal participation.
FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 9 available here.
About our guest:
Kerosene Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. Utilizing counter-archival impulse and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide both sonic and ceremonial sanctuary for horny ghosts with unfinished business. His work across mediums has been programmed and supported by Anthology Film Archives, Art Omi, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, Center For Performance Research, Montez Press Radio, Onaissis USA, The Poetry Project, Wave Farm, and New York State Council for the Arts. His arts & culture writing has appeared in Interview Magazine, X-TRA, MUBI Notebook, Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and LAMBDA Literary. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast “Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters.” He is the current arts editor of WUSSY Magazine.
More about Kerosene Jones:
Instagram: @kerosenejones_
WUSSY mag Instagram: @wussymag
Kerosene Jones's Linktree: linktr.ee/KeroseneJones
Writing: Kerosene Jones's piece about Blacklips Performance Cult in X-TRA
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Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.