Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Photo by Brian Fitzsimmons
Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Photo by Brian Fitzsimmons
Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Photo by Brian Fitzsimmons
Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Photo by Brian Fitzsimmons
Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Join us for a performance of Moon Medicin celebrating the opening of MIT's new Music Building and the dedication of Madrigal, a vibrantly patterned outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers.
Moon Medicin is a performance art sound system—a living, breathing, ever-evolving installation unique to each experience. Original compositions interweave with reimagined covers against a backdrop of curated sound effects and images spanning sci-fi, punk, sacred geometry, coded symbology, film noir, minstrelsy, world politics, and ceremonial dance.
Led by creative director and renowned visual artist Sanford Biggers, Moon Medicin is presented by a collective of musicians, designers, and performance artists. The core ensemble—Martin Luther (guitar and vocals), Jahi Sundance (turntables), and Mark Hines (video and beat manipulation)—has collaborated with Meshell Ndegeocello, Andre Cymone, Terence Nance, Imani Uzuri, Sumie Kaneko, Rich Medina, Keyon Harrold, Charlotte Braithwaite, Black Thought, Saul Williams, Esthero, Shae Fiol, Andrew Palermo, Terry Adkins, and the Sun Ra Arkestra Archives.
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970), raised in Los Angeles, lives and works in New York City. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2021); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2016); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2012); and Brooklyn Museum (2011), among others. His work has also appeared in group exhibitions at the Menil Collection, Houston (2008); Tate Modern, London (2007); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2024); Barbican Centre, London (2024); Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017); and Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2017).
Biggers's accolades include the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Jazz Album for his contribution to Meshell Ndegeocello's The Omnichord Real Book. He received an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and was honored at the Bronx Museum Gala and Art Auction (2024). A National Academician in the Class of 2023 at the National Academy of Design, he has also received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2023–24), Morehouse College's Bennie Trailblazer Award (2024), the Savannah College of Art and Design's deFINE Art Award (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (2018), and the Rome Prize in Visual Arts (2017). Biggers served as the 2021–22 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Professor and Scholar in MIT's Department of Architecture.
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Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
W18-1102
21 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
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Co-presented by the List Visual Arts Center and Music and Theater Arts.
