WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sept. 18, the Clark Art Institute presents a free performance by Haitian electronic music composer, percussionist, and turntablist Val-Inc as part of its DJs at Sunset series. 

 

This event takes place at 6 pm on the Fernández Terrace.

 

According to a press release:

 

The DJs at Sunset series is presented in celebration of the exhibition, Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires. Kathia St. Hilaire (b. 1995, West Palm Beach, Florida; lives and works in New York), whose parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti, tells stories of the island nation’s history and the long shadows it casts, from French colonialism to independence, from U.S. occupation to the diasporic communities in which she was raised. The exhibition is on view through September 22 in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

 

Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a descendent of composer and pianist Occide Jeanty and Vodou priestess GranMe Shoun. She incorporates African Haitian musical traditions and acoustics with post-modern electronics to evoke her dreamlike realm of Afro-Electronica, also called Vodou-Electro

 

Free. Bring a picnic and a blanket. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. Rain moves the performance to the Clark Center lower level.