DonChristian Jones
Eiko met DonChristian Jones when he was a student in Eiko's course at Wesleyan University. DonChristian joined Eiko at the Rauschenberg Residency for ten days in November-December 2017. In November 2018, they developed another duet and performed the section at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and on March 29, 2019 performed a full evening length outdoor work at the public plaza in front of the Columbia University's Lenfest Center for the Arts.
DonChristian Jones is a New York based interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter, and producer. His work spans musical and time based performance, rap albums, video and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012, where he studied painting both there, and abroad in Rome, Italy. Don has shown and performed at institutions such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Center, and was a collaborating artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida with Eiko Otake. Forbes listed DonChristian's debut album "Where There's Smoke" as one of the ten best Hip Hop albums of 2018.
See Media Works and Wesleyan CFA Virtual Studio for more of Eiko and Don’s collaborations.
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