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Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran

Two persons performing.

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

Two persons performing.


Video: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran's Bleed


Also On View

  • A still shot of people with wearing wings in the park.

    Maurice Berger (b. 1956), Threshold, 2012. 35 mm film and video color and black-and-white 35mm and 16mm film and color video transferred to DVD, sound; 3:58 min. Courtesy the artist

    A still shot of people with wearing wings in the park.
  • Shadow play of a cutting of a tree and a house.

    Kara Walker (b. 1969), National Archives Microfilm Publication M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road, 2009. Digital video, color, sound; 13:22 min. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & co., New York

    Shadow play of a cutting of a tree and a house.
  • An old lady looking at a big screen.

    Joan Jonas (b. 1936), Reading Dante III, 2008. Video, color, sound; 55 min. With music by Jason Moran, soundtrack by Joan Jonas, and additional music by David Lang. Courtesy the artist

    An old lady looking at a big screen.
  • A woman pointing at something looking angry.

    Simone Leigh (b. 1968) and Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981), Breakdown, 2011. High-definition video, color, sound; 8 min. Courtesy the artists

    A woman pointing at something looking angry.
  • Blurry text.

    Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), The Death of Tom, 2008. 16mm film transferred to video, black-and-white, sound; 23 min. Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

    Blurry text.

During BLEED, 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—will be continuously screened on the fourth floor.

Alicia Hall Moran

Born 1973 in Redwood City, California
Lives and Works in New York

Jason Moran

Born 1975 in Houston
Lives and Works in New York

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.