Jordan Deal, also known as ROSEKILLJUPITER, is a Philadelphia based multidisciplinary practitioner and alchemist. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, film, and their BODY as a conduit between unseen forces and the materializations of socio-political structures and mythologies. They have been exploring the accumulation of mythbuilding & worldbuilding, mapping, memory, and the use of vocal and movement based improvisation as a generative and investigative tool that harnesses and disperses CHAOS FORCE as a subversive material and methodology.
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; the tropes of superhero/villain; undead knowledge; and counter-active channels of potentiality that exists against global colonialism and imperialism’s frameworks and mappings.
Deal has shown work with Judson Memorial Church (NY), the Center for Performance Research (BK, NY), Fringe Festival (Phila, PA) The Brick Theater (BK,NY), Cafe OTO (LDN, UK), Icebox Project Space (Phila, PA), Protocinema & Protodispatch (NY, NY), Fleisher-Ollman gallery (Phila, PA), Vox Populi (Phila, PA), amongst others.
They have recently been awarded the 2023-2024 Artistic Fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and was awarded the 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.
Their last album, GOGO UNDERWORLD, was released in 2022 with Cor Ardens featuring Deal combing through waste streams of aural debris, calling in warnings of the wild global West, and ghostly mirages from past and future.
