Other Plans exhibiting artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is the inagural recipient of the Triple Canopy Fellowship. Established in 2024, the Triple Canopy Fellowship supports unorthodox, genre-defying artists in the development of a project that advances the magazine’s commitment to the role of artists as public thinkers. Each year, one fellow will be awarded a $10,000 honorarium, plus a $5,000 production budget, along with extensive support from Triple Canopy’s editors and staff over a multiyear period. Support for the Triple Canopy Fellowship has been generously provided, in part, by the Lambent Foundation.
The magazine has long commissioned large-scale projects that both analyze and experiment with the media and expressions that shape public discourse. These commissions often move between forms and audiences, manifesting as performances, advertisements, hybrid essays, podcasts, and other unconventional formats. The Fellowship formalizes the magazine’s investment in this distinct editorial approach, and recognizes the resources needed to support genuine experimentation.
Through the Fellowship, Toussaint-Baptiste is developing a new project rooted in the central themes of his work: the role of ancestry and heritage in representations and elisions of Black life, as well as the reclamation of historical narratives—and property—as a form of resistance.
Toussaint-Baptiste’s previous contributions to Triple Canopy focus on the role of bass in the cultural expressions and policing of Black people and, more generally, the use of sound as a means of recognition or repulsion. They include an episode of the Medium Rotation podcast; a performance and conversation at the magazine’s 2023 symposium; and several performances with ... and Drive Far Away (2022), a decommissioned police car outfitted with ultra-low frequency subwoofers that acts as a platform for compositions by himself and others.
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste was a Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellow in 2022, a Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence in 2021, and an artist-in-residence at Issue Project Room in 2017. In 2018, he received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design. He has presented visual and performance work at MoMA PS1, Performance Space New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat! and an assistant professor in the Sculpture + Extended Media department at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Read more about Toussaint-Baptiste's exhibition Break Stuff at Other Plans (January - March 2024) here, and find out more their fellowship at Triple Canopy here.