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Hans Ulrich Obrist filmed it on his cellphone.
The band was sitting down for most of the set and they werent on any stage or raised platform.
Its a celebration of black women featuring photography culled fromJetandEbonymagazines from the 1950s and 60s.
But Gates explains that theyre also just experimenting with sound.
What is the music before music?
Is there a way to go backwards in time to start at an original point in sound?
There were no black people in the show, says Gates.
I was likehow can you have an exhibition about Mississippi and not have black people in the show?
The curator invited Gates to propose something and he came up with The Black Monks of Mississippi.
That was 12 years ago, Jesus.
He notes though it gives him something, he doesnt get from some of his other work.
