Christie Neptune’s Ah New Riddim: A Marked (Black) Axiological Shift

Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.

Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift (2023) is the third and final iteration of the multimedia series Constructs and Context Relativity (2019-2023) by interdisciplinary artist Christie Neptune (SMACT ’23). The installation and interactive documentary study examines the spatial-temporal relationship of memory and place embedded within the implosion of dancehall culture in East Flatbush. The film utilizes 80s dancehall archival footage, the quiet of black subjectivity, and concentric interactive storytelling to expound the relationship between black globality and dancehall in the American urban. In a pivot around her embodied experience as a black Caribbean, Neptune considers the potential of black popular culture in marking space. Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift was made possible by generous support from Artists Alliance Inc., Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT), and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (FCA).

Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Documentation photography by Hai Zhang. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York, NY). Image courtesy of Artists Alliance Inc.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Thesis edition monograph.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Thesis edition monograph.
Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim: A Marked Axiological Shift. Thesis edition monograph.

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