Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole: Blind Spot
CAP UCLA | 8 p.m., The Theatre at Ace Hotel
“The intensity of the ensemble’s active engagement with the political zeitgeist on an ugly American morning helped to make [Blind Spot] seem all the more valuable.” —The Guardian
Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole's powerful new collaboration, Blind Spot, based on Cole’s new work of the same name, investigates humanity’s blindness to tragedy and injustice throughout history by combining photography and Cole’s own voice with a live score composed by Iyer. The performance also features trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, mallet percussionist Patricia Brennan, and cellist Tomeka Reid.
Composer/pianist Vijay Iyer was named Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year for 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. The New York Times observed that “There’s probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative output of the pianist Vijay Iyer.”
Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, photographer, and the photography critic for The New York Times Magazine. He is also the author of four books, each in a different genre: the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, the novel Open City, the essay collection Known and Strange Things and, most recently, the genre-defying Blind Spot.
This event is presented by the Center for the Art of Performance website.
Event Date: Saturday, Sep. 22, 8 p.m.*
*Join us in the The Theatre at Ace Hotel lobby before Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole's Blind Spot for a special live mic event with the Get Lit Players. Poets respond to the prompt, What Is Your Blind Spot? The mic is hot from 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
Venue: The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Price: $26–$56*
*UCLA Students: $15, UCLA Faculty & Staff $25
The Theatre at Ace Hotel is located at 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015.
Valet services are available at Ace Hotel and several private parking lots can be found near the theater.
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