Ben Anderson and Jace Clayton | 05.12.2017
Ben Anderson is a Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography at Durham University. Over the past five years, his research has focused on how affects arising in situations of emergency such as hope and fear are part of contemporary political and cultural life. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, he has worked on a genealogy of the birth of the “emergency state”. His current research focuses on the “affective lives” of neoliberalism, including most recently joint work with Helen Wilson on the moods and atmospheres that cluster around the event of Brexit in the impasse between the referendum result and exiting the EU. His monograph on theories of affect, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Routledge) was published in 2014.
Jace Clayton is an artist and writer based in Manhattan, also known for his work as DJ/rupture. Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound inflects and articulates our sense of shared political space, with an emphasis on low-income communities and non-Western geographies. His book Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has performed in over three dozen countries, both solo and as director of large ensemble performances. As DJ/rupture, he has released several critically acclaimed albums and hosted a weekly radio show on WFMU. He gives frequent artist talks and lectures at a number of cultural institutions worldwide. Since 2018 his work has been exhibited internationally. Clayton’s essays have appeared in n+1, ARTFORUM, Frieze, and New York Times Magazine. He was awarded a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers grant for his second book, Behold the Monkey. Clayton serves on the Music faculty of Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, taught at Harvard University in 2019, and was the 2017-2018 Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. jaceclayton.com