terrestrial (in progress)
About Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand, terrestrial is an examination of humans as earth [...]
Study Sessions
Study Sessions texto abaixo em português e inglês | text below is in both English and Portuguese Study Sessions é um laboratório [...]
Salt (2015)
About I see this work as a lil’ cousin to my solo, Android Tears, which I was working on at one of [...]
Private Places (2012)
About From subtle interaction to bombastic theatrical expression, Private Places examines notions of order—how we order, categorize, groom, distinguish, and distort ourselves [...]
Plastic City (2012)
About There are two theories at the heart of this work: Theory #1 – Sameness does not exist; Theory #2 – Sameness [...]
More Mutable Than You (2015)
About Jumatatu Poe and Jesse Zaritt began working together artistically in 2011, as strangers. Their current work explores the evolution of that [...]
Let ‘im Move You: This is a Success (2016)
This work explores notions of African-American exceptionalism as expressed through middle class, Black American values reiterated in the J-Sette form. It explores the artists’ respective relationships to Blackness, gender and queerness through movement and living experiences.
Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation
About This is a move. This is a deep spinal curve on top of a high booty. This is a game, and [...]
Let ‘im Move You – Series
History In 2009, jumatatu m. poe (r) and Jermone “Donte” Beacham (l) began an artistic relationship, initiated by jumatatu’s interest in Donte’s sharply [...]
Let ‘im Move You: Intervention (2016)
Jumatatu Poe and William Robinson formatted their work, Let ‘im Move You: This Is a Success into a street intervention, first performed three times in three separate locations in Philadelphia on Sunday, June 26, 2016.
Let ‘im Move You – Installation
About Installation is an open-ended collection of installation works that are often presented alongside performance work in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone [...]
Let ‘im Move You: A Study (2013/2016 revision)
Major interests for these explorations included rhythm, pattern, and attention. In addition to research in the studios of the Alte Post, Jumatatu and Donte also used movement as a way to agitate social codes in gay bars and clubs in Köln.