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Mendi + Keith Obadike

Mendi + Keith Obadike

Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art, and literature. In addition to making pioneering artworks for the internet early in their career, they have exhibited and performed in “brick and mortar” spaces at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their public projects include a series of large-scale, commissioned sound art works: Blues Speaker (for James Baldwin) at The New School, Compass Song at Times Square, Free/Phase at the Chicago Cultural Center, Sonic Migration at Tindley Temple in Philadelphia, and SlowDrag in St Louis. Their recent recording projects are Eagle and Rabbit, a work developed at the Nazi Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Lift, a music/video meditation on the song known as the Black National Anthem (“Lift Every Voice And Sing”); the 8-hour overnight musical work, Lull. Their honors include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, among others.

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They developed Dream Train via an ACO EarShot CoLABoratory Residency. Learn more about that work at this link.

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Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art, and literature. In addition to making pioneering artworks for the internet early in their career, they have exhibited and performed in “brick and mortar” spaces at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their public projects include a series of large-scale, commissioned sound art works: Blues Speaker (for James Baldwin) at The New School, Compass Song at Times Square, Free/Phase at the Chicago Cultural Center, Sonic Migration at Tindley Temple in Philadelphia, and SlowDrag in St Louis. Their recent recording projects are Eagle and Rabbit, a work developed at the Nazi Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Lift, a music/video meditation on the song known as the Black National Anthem (“Lift Every Voice And Sing”); the 8-hour overnight musical work, Lull. Their honors include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, among others.
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Featured Works

DreamTrain
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ACO PERFORMANCES

EarShot CoLABoratory Showcase Concert at New School Tishman Auditorium
June 11, 2023
Tishman Auditorium at Mannes School of Music
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EarShot CoLABoratory Workshop
October 4, 2022
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
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RingShout: A Sonic Healing
February 18, 2022
Digital Event
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Professional Development Panel: Programming & Digital Curation
May 19, 2021
Zoom
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EarShot CoLABoratory Showcase Concert (2022-2023)
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Featured Events

EarShot CoLABoratory Showcase Concert (2022-2023)
Date:
June 11, 2023
Venue:
Tishman Auditorium
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The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

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Static and dynamic content editing

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