THEATER

Dawuna and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste with Dreamcrusher

10 Sep. 2022 | 3-8pm

For the opening of Signaling, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste performed a composition for an unmarked police car that he has turned into a sound system and instrument: … and Drive Far Away (2022), his contribution to the exhibition. (The work was installed in KinoSaito’s garden throughout the exhibition.) He’ll be joined by Dreamcrusher, a moniker of the New York City-based musician and artist, Luwayne Glass. After the performance, Toussaint-Baptiste spoke about the work and his relationship to bass, Gulf Coast rap, car-audio culture, and policing.

To conclude the evening, the musician Dawuna will perform with a band in KinoSaito’s theater. His music is ethereal and quietly ecstatic, but rooted in the moral quandaries and emotional turbulence of daily life. Dawuna’s debut, the self-produced Glass Lit Dream (2020), balances ambient soundscapes and stirring melodies, industrial artifacts and gospel-inflected meditations on desire and alienation. The Guardian called Glass Lit Dream a “masterpiece,” and Bandcamp Daily hailed the record as an “underground hit” in which “genres pioneered by Black musicians … seamlessly intertwine with darker ambient sounds and liquid synths.” At KinoSaito, Dawuna will be joined by Brian Davenport and Noella Mugerwa Byenkya.

To read more about these performances and artists, visit the page devoted to “Signaling.”

Beverages for this event were graciously provided by Grimm Ales and Hiatus Tequila.