Julius Eastman

"Femenine stages Eastman’s shaping and buildingof the black queer masculine form – caught notnecessarily between two poles of gender, but withhis work constantly driving his own self-making.He was an inventor and sculptor, reminiscent of Jean Tinguely and Harry Bertoia. Clanging, noisy, joyful, and playful in turn, the sound sculptureemerges from these primary elements, mouldingand pressing, jiggering and jolleying, through alinear  flow  of  sound  and  insistent  chordalpunctuations. The continuous hum of the primemotive as a bed of sound against the softness ofthe  texture  and  the  fierceness  of  the  accentedmajor  triads  takes  flight  into  a dreamscape,making possible new ways of listening, knowing,and being." - Ellie M. Hisama & Isaac Jean-François