Liminal Space Concert 7/12 at King Pleasure w/ Laraaji, Slauson Malone 1, L’Rain
LIMINAL SPACEAn Immersive Music Experience
TUESDAY, JULY 12THJean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©
601 W. 26TH STREET NEW YORK, NYPerformances by
LARAAJI
SLAUSON MALONE 1
L’RAIN
Visuals by TIMEBOY
Laraaji Slauson Malone 1 L’Rain TIMEBOY
Visual Dir.
VICE will host Liminal Space, a live immersive sound experience focused on ambient, experimental, and avant-garde music on Tuesday, July 12th. The performers include; multi-instrumentalist ambient phenom Laraaji, artist and musician Jasper Marsalis’ Slauson Malone 1 project, and experimental multi-instrumentalist L’Rain. Visual artist, composer, and VJ, TIMEBOY will be presenting an original visual accompaniment to this sensory journey. The event will be held in the Michael Todd VIP Room of the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© exhibition, which is a recreation of the iconic VIP room of the Palladium nightclub in NYC for which Jean-Michel created two large scale paintings that are now on display at the exhibition for the first time in decades. Read VICE’s piece about the Michael Todd Room here. Liminal Space is supported by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE.Liminal Space draws inspiration from Jean-Michel’s musical experiments and his noise band Gray. By exploring his relationship to music through artists who employ methods and themes that defy what audiences perceive as ‘Black music’ inviting the audiences into a bespoke performance amplified by a singular narrative visual installation.
Tickets for the event are available at kingpleasure.basquiat.com.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© spans over 15,000-square-feet, features over 200 never before and rarely seen paintings, drawings, ephemera and artifacts to give an intimate and multidimensional portrait of Jean-Michel that can only be told by his family. All of the work comes from the family’s collection with the vast majority never having been exhibited previously. Along with the Michael Todd Room, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© also features recreations of his NYC artist studio on Great Jones St. and Jean-Michel’s family home.The exhibition is produced by The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux serving as executive producers, in collaboration with Ileen Gallagher and ISG Productions Ltd. The family commissioned internationally acclaimed architect David Adjaye to be the exhibition’s designer. He is the founder of Adjaye Associates, which operates with studios in Accra, London, and New York, and designed The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC. The exhibition’s identity has been created by Abbott Miller of visionary design firm Pentagram. He has previously collaborated with cultural clients including the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum. Renowned furniture design and manufacturing company Arper has provided furniture for the Michael Todd VIP Room recreation at the exhibition. The exhibition’s accompanying book was authored by the family and is out now via Rizzoli Electa.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© is proudly sponsored by Citi. Participating sponsors include BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, Yieldstreet, Spotify, VICE, and Phillips.