• CV

• Surveying Gravity
  • Randolph Bromery
  • Earth Art Space Time
  • Archival, Urgent, Imaginative
  • Parachute Folding

• Minted in Enemy Bronze
  • From the Campidoglio to the Zoo
  • Parascintille
  • Where the sun of the future rises
  • They Remain
  • Sit Down
  • Al Lettore Benevolo
  • No Victories
  • The Age We Are Living In
  • All Stories True
  • doan yu tell noone I made it
  • Tempus Tacendi
  • Loquens De Fluminibus
  • Legacy

• Installation
  • III Chapters for Till
  • Flammable
  • Fine Toothed Combs
  • Black Posterity
  • Antenna of the Race
  • The Crisis of Black Intellect
  • Get Ready You Mother...
  • The future looks brighter than ever.
  • Dark was the Night
  • Captives, Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer
  • Labor Vincit Omnia
  • Togged to the Bricks
  • Heel Tap

• Performance
  • Black Maybe
  • Quattro Su Dieci
  • Pay Thunder No Mind
  • Antenna of the Race
  • A Series of Complex Handshakes
  • Frisk Yo' Whiskers
  • Tryin to Get Ready
  • Negotiating Terms of Exclusion
  • Friskin' the Whiskers
  • Dark was the Night
  • Mi Daran Tomba...e Pace...Forse
  • Captives, Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer
  • Moldy Figs
  • Preface to 20 Voices for Robeson
  • Fit the Battle
  • Standing in a Safety Zone
  • Togged to the Bricks
  • Hide Beaters
  • Hand for a Hand
  • Heel Tap
  • Traveling Shoes
  • Brutus Jones
  • Meet Me in the Bottoms
  • Dem Golden Slippers
  • Joshua

Ragtime wasn't supposed to be nothin' from Bradly Dever Treadaway on Vimeo.

Justin Randolph Thompson, Bradly Dever Treadaway

Ragtime Wasn't Supposed to be Nothin' is an experimental documentary work examining the legacy of Eubie Blake and the social liberation of age. Based on a text by Matthew D. Morrison the piece employs footage of Floyd Patterson's last fight as a symbol of the changing of the guards. Referencing the Brooklyn residence of Patterson and Blake, jazz and innovation are placed in conflict with the socio-cultural expectations of performance.

Text by Matthew D. Morrison