Whitney.org: 'Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran in Residence May 9-13' with 'BLEED'

[Rehearsing for the premiere of Slang (Other Minds Festival of New Music, San Francisco, 2011). Video stills from a forthcoming documentary on Jason Moran by Gregg Conde and Radiclani Clytus. © Gregg Conde and Radiclani Clytus; courtesy Gregg Conde]

Whitney Museum of American Art

2012 Biennial Residencies 

BLEED, 2012

Live music and mixed-media installation

Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for the 2012 Whitney Biennial

For their Biennial residency, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran present five days of live music, exploring the power of performance to cross barriers and challenge assumptions, as their title, BLEED, suggests. With a line-up of concerts and events spanning music, dance, theater, and literature, as well as an exhibition of past video collaborations with Glenn Ligon, Joan Jonas, Kara Walker, and Simone Leigh and Liz Magic Laser—and a new video by the cultural historian Maurice Berger—BLEED is a celebration of surprising synergy across the visual arts and music.

The Morans’ decade-long artistic partnership is perhaps the most poetic “sound bleed” of all. Alicia Hall Moran is a Broadway musical actress and classically trained mezzo-soprano of extraordinary warmth and eloquence; Jason Moran, a MacArthur Fellow and the artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center, is an acclaimed pianist/composer whose innovative style provides an influential vision of what jazz can be in the twenty-first century.

Free with Museum admission; no special ticketing required.