#terence nance

[addictivecontradiction]

An oversimplification of her beauty, 2012

[yazbean]

You meet her in a sky.

She has taken the form of a sun,

but does not emit heat.

You ask for the time.

She refers you to

a moon who unfortunately

does not have the same

gravitational pull as she.

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Terence Nance

[vintagewarhol]

[kunthug]

What does ritual mean to you?

Well, I think that for me, when I think about that question in the present moment, it brings me to this quote from Malidoma. It’s not an exact quote, but he says a lot. This idea that ritual as a word is misused in Western culture. Mostly when we say ritual, we really just mean a routine, something we do regularly. And then he gives the example of going to a wedding. He’s like, “I thought I was going to a ritual. But they just do the same thing in every wedding.” When the best man gets up, tells a joke, and they say these vows that are more or less the same and then they kiss and say, “I do.” And that’s it. That’s not a ritual.

And then he corrects us as a ritual is a set of interventions in the material world to facilitate a spontaneous interaction with spirit. He always underlines that word spontaneous because you don’t control them. In conversation, you dialogue, you make contact, and then you comport yourself with a lot of readiness to either receive the guidance that you don’t know what it’s going to be or be in a spontaneous interaction, which gets difficult to talk about, especially in English.

And I think at present, what I’m trying to cultivate is how to always enter into ritual with that awareness and that intention that I’m inviting a spontaneous interaction. And then that is where the relationship is built between the physical world and the spiritual world, the ethereal world. And that relationship is the most elusive to orienting in our modern life, it’s also the most necessary for our survival, which is so strange.

Even to the context of thinking of the spirit world as your emotions or your trauma, those are things you can’t see, but they have a profound impact on everything you do. Or your concept of the future or your dreams about what could happen. Stuff like that also has to happen. So maintaining that relationship and cultivating interventions in the physical world to come into relationship spontaneously with all kinds of ethereal means is a discipline that I’m cultivating.

— terence nance. {**}

[sonofellisart]

This episode had me crying and laughing

[thesoftesthue]

"Are you leaving?"

[burntsoft]

on embodying fragmentation

change is this good

[mushroomwater]

Megan Thee Stallion for "The Language of Calvin Klein" Spring 2021 Campaign

Photographer: Mario Sorrenti Director: Terence Nance

[blackfilmshowdown]

New Film Submissions

Brother From Another Planet (1984) dir. John Sayles "The Brother" (Joe Morton) is an alien and escaped slave on the run from his home planet. After he lands in New York City, he tries to adapt to life on the streets of Harlem. As the Brother tries to blend in with his new culture, he finds an apartment and gradually makes friends. Meanwhile, he is pursued by two agents from his home world who are intent on returning there with him. Fast Color (2018) dir. Julia Hart Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman who has supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter and learns that the power she needed was inside her all along. See You Yesterday (2019) dir. Stefon Bristol Two teenage science prodigies spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. When one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished project to the test to save him. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2013) dir. Terrace Nance After a woman fails to show up for their date, an artist (Terence Nance) ponders the divide between romantic and platonic love, and why his past relationships have failed.

[realistian]

DREAMWEAVERS: In / Conversation - Carrie Mae Weems and Terence Nance

[addictivecontradiction]

An oversimplification of her beauty, 2012

[yazbean]

She says that she has just arrived at her own home and will not be seeing you tonight. Now at that moment, given the circumstances, how would you feel?

[burlveneer-music]

Terence Etc. - V O R T E X - hip hip, r&b, jazz, and whatever else works for each song, i.e. a perfect match for the Brainfeeder label

First introduced into the public eye as a filmmaker with his 2012 Sundance Film Festival debut “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty”, Terence Nance (also known as Terence Etc. in more musically aligned spheres) exists on the threshold of artistic form. Terence has built a reputation over the last decade as one of America’s most adventurous filmmakers and is perhaps best known for his Peabody Award-winning HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness”, a television program that he created, directed, starred in, edited, and scored in 2018. He is truly multidisciplinary. He draws. He writes. He sings. He plays the guitar. He builds things. He harbors in himself a great many possibilities, a great many realities that whirl about seeking expression and balance. It is this desire for balance—balance of life, balance of emotions, balance of energies within— that brought forth “V O R T E X”, his debut album. “V O R T E X is a sonic tool that I made so that I can play it for myself and balance my energy between masculine and feminine; destructive and creative; domination and submission; right and left; sun and moon; day and night: opposing energies generally,” explains Terence. “The album intends to use sound, melody, song, incantation, etc. to rebalance a bodyspirit through out the constant circular movement of life.” The album was written and produced by Terence, along with long time friends and collaborators: Solomon Dorsey, Nick Hakim and his brother Nelson Bandela. Most of the songs on the 11 track album are arranged as diptychs that swell and fold in on themselves in a dizzying oscillation. Terence is flirtatious in his lamenting, with a style that swells from suggestively oracular, to vaudeville, to your local battle of the bands. The record certainly defies easy categorisation but is forged with the same spirit of experimentation and adventure synonymous with Terence’s heroes and contemporaries, artists like Andre 3K, Solange, Serpentwithfeet, Nelson Bandela, Standing on the Corner, Earl Sweatshirt, Nick Hakim, and Moses Sumney and indeed, Brainfeeder’s illustrious founder Flying Lotus. V O R T E X also draws on the literature of Louise Erdrich and Toni Morrison, as well as the drawings of Ruby Amanze whose voice is featured on the album.

[kunthug]

It definitely is a new form. In some ways it’s as simple as that was what I was feeling at the time. That’s just what I wanted to do, how I wanted to express. But if I were to sort of interrogate a little bit more, I think the idea that we wanted to explore “The Parable of the Pirate and the King,” divination, going back to ritual initiation, it just required a cipher. You’re watching this story, you need something to see yourself in so you can understand how it might be useful to you as not quite a mirror, a piece of glass that you can see yourself in; an image you can see through, that kind of thing. And I think that this form accommodates that utility of a story or a fable or parable, which is meant to have a divinatory use.

And I think in the first season we needed the space to do whatever, to have a form that really accommodated liberation and to show that on HBO, on the platform of this scale, Terence Nance and artists like Terence Nance can do whatever we want to do or whatever comes through. And so the form, I wouldn’t have called it variety, I would’ve just called it liberation. It’s just what it is, just what came through. But that was what needed to be put down at the time and it was just very different than what needed to be put down right now.

— terrence nance{~~}

oh god yes! liberation in art is what i’ve been saying. can there be freedom in the work? is the work one of many places where we revel in our freedom?

[7vyntheefaerie]

Random Acts of Flyness by Terrence Nance

afrosurrealist, avant-garde television program created/conceptualized by Terence Nance. for the purpose of this project, i will be focusing on the season 2 program: The Parable of the Pirate and the King.

key themes:

affirming blackness, decentering whiteness

black subconscious

coping with antiblackness thru interpersonal relationships

spiritual rebirth

rituals

blackness as a concept beyond bodily experiences

african diasporic takes on liminal space & bridge crossing

(black) human experiences beyond 3rd dimension

ancestral veneration

i am most interested in using this program to discuss the "work" we're all meant to be doing for liberation, but also work that is essential to building worlds that black queer maGes have the possibility of thriving in. also interested in this to explore black queer maGes relationship to work that is assigned vs work self-assigned/ancestrally gifted.

*will provide possible rituals and "work" for people to explore for themselves. will work on link. may just create dropbox?*

[daisyskeates1]

RESEARCH - IMAX live

When it came to developing a brand for our new sub-brand, IMAX Live, the brief was to create a genre defining experiential sub-brand that captures the unpredictable nature of live events whilst forcing people who don’t go to movie theatres to re-appraise what a theatre is.

Offers the most immersive viewing experience outside of a theatre.- Brings together best-in-class certified devices, remastered content and elevated streaming. -It can be up to 40% larger than a standard movie screen. The seats are angled to open your field of view an average to 70 degrees, while speakers are positioned to immerse you in sound.

André 3000: New Blue Sun IMAX Live Experience

“Join André 3000 in celebrating the release of his genre leaping debut solo album, New Blue Sun with an album listening cinematic experience and live Q&A. Directed by Terence Nance, witness André’s fusion of improv creativity and musical exploration in vivid detail and unparalleled sound quality through the IMAX Live Experience, blending captivating visuals and instrumentation.”

Took place for one night only on January 23. The event presented the record as an album listening cinematic experience, with New Blue Sun mixed for IMAX’s 12-channel sound and image quality.

The session was screened in 22 IMAX movie theatres across the country.

Blends captivating visuals and instrumentation.

DIXONBEXI - Agency research

Dixonbaxi is a design agency who partnered with IMAX to promote their new Live cinematic feature

They created a system that pushes IMAX “into the future.” The logo is bold, confident and uncompromising, combining the iconic IMAX logotype with a new, hyper-bold LIVE word mark that’s double the size.

What I like about their work:

They include relevant imagery for each poster whilst linking them with similar colours, shapes & typography.

They create animations & idents out of work they have already created to showcase the meanings more. -They use bright colours and bold type to draw attention -I love the way they lay out their images inside their typeface in their social media assets and posters. It gives a unique and inventive look an feel to their work.