Image Description: Jordan is lying in middle of street mid performance. Eden, wearing jersey crouched on ground beside them. Vernon’s draping leggings are visible leaning against car. Trunk is open. From “capeforce ii”, by Jordan Deal.
Jordan Deal (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary practitioner and conjurer. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, film, writing, sculpture, and their body as a conduit between unseen forces, socio-political structures, and anomalies. Through their use of speculative philosophy, punk tonalities, myth, and process-based research, they have developed an artistic/scholarly practice that bleeds into avant-theatrical performances, happenings, and sonic compositions. They utilize vocal and movement based improvisational techniques in order to harness and disperse a concept they call chaos force as a subversive material and methodology. Their shapeshifting forms are intended to experiment with embodied black queer futurity–rendering the space between fugitivity, subterranean landscapes, worldbuilding, resistance, and a love poetic.
Through the use of collected and found field recordings, video/film documenta, and autobiographical myth fabrication, Deal explores language, dialectics, borders and territories; blackness as reproductive destruction; memory as historical artifacts; and the tropes of superhero/villain in developing a decolional ethos.
Deal has presented performance work internationally such as at Cafe OTO London, Performing Arts Forum France, Judson Memorial Church NYC, the Center for Performance Research BK, NY, and Icebox Project Space Philadelphia. They have exhibited sculptural and sonic installations at Fleisher-Ollman gallery (Phila, PA), Vox Populi (Phila, PA), Grizzly Grizzly (Phila,PA), Fleisher Art Memorial, amongst others.
Deal is a 2024 recipient of the MAPFund Grant and were invited to be a 2024 recipient of the BASC residency and performer in the Performance Mix Festival #38. They were a Fall 2022 research fellow at Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, New York, where they continued their investigations of chaos force.
Deal’s films have been part of selections in Blackstar Film Festival (Phila, PA), Vox Populi, Grizzly Grizzly, Center of Performance Research, Indie Short Fest, and Paris Film Festival. They have been included in press such as PROTOCINEMA/PROTODISPATCH, ARTNews, ArtBlog, Titled House Review Spring 2021 issue and Grizzly Grizzly: In Dialogue.
Deal recently released their new full LP titled Seas of Triple Consciousness with London-based record label Horn of Plenty Records this past September. Their last album under ROSEKILLJUPITER titled GOGO UNDERWORLD, was released in 2022 with Cor Ardens.
