task 03 / 8 | COLLECTIVE TASK

Start date: March 1, 2026.

List of participants:
Chris Alexander (NYC), Alexis Almeida (NYC), Roberto Balò (Prato), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (NYC), Courtney Bush (NYC), Alessandra Capodacqua (Florence), Felipe Cussen (Santiago, Chile), Mónica de la Torre (NYC), Claire DeVoogd (NYC), Robert Fitterman (NYC), Ethan Fortuna (NYC), Sophia Le Fraga (Los Angeles), Kristen Gallagher (NYC), Henry Goldkamp (New Orleans), Sanja Grozdanic (NYC), Aurelia Guo (London), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Christine Kelly (North Adams, MA), Klaus Killisch (Berlin), Tyler Little (NYC), Matt Longabucco (NYC), Kristin Lucas (Austin), Monica McClure (NYC), Holly Melgard (NYC), Hella Mewis (Baghdad), Joe Milutis (Seattle), Cole Modell (Pittsburgh), Yedda Morrison (San Francisco), Joseph Mosconi (Los Angeles), Sean Munro (New Orleans), Anna Murray (Dublin), Théo Robine-Langlois (Paris), Kim Rosenfield (NYC), Zaid Saad (Baghdad), Jeff Shapiro (Siena), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh), Luke Stettner (Columbus, OH), Barrett White (NYC), Sam Winston (London), Joey Yearous-Algozin (NYC)

JAZZ
Joe Milutis

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Courtney Bush

JAZZ FOR KIDS

On the bus, as always, people talk my ear off when I am with Augie, who just turned two and is excessively cute and smart. He has been speaking in full sentences for six months. A sentence he recently spoke to me: I eat people. He told me this as I was changing his diaper after his nap. I said Augie, no sweet boy, we don’t eat people. He said no, I eat people, distinguishing the we from the I, correcting my misunderstanding. So this woman on the bus wouldn’t stop trying to show us Instagram videos of a mouse named Tony counting to ten. I was like honey, Augie can count to like… a million, he’s a genius. You don’t know us. Then she started obsessively recommending a class called “Jazz for Kids” at Lincoln Center. She borderline begged me to sign him up. I left the bus feeling violated and thinking of how adults are willing to project their interests onto innocent kids to validate themselves. Jazz for example. What is a two year old genius going to do with boring ass jazz for kids, I’m sorry but he’s smarter than that!!! Jazz I guess is fine? To some people? But jazz for kids? He could listen to regular jazz if he wanted to. It’s like the Beatles for kids. Like, they are smarter than you are thinking they are. They don’t need to be played jazz and the Beatles. They can listen to regular music. Whatever. I would spit on jazz for kids’ grave I think.

Alessandra Capodacqua

Felipe Cussen

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Claire DeVoogd

A lot of people say “I don’t like jazz”
In high school I knew a girl named Jazzy
One preconception
Liking jazz has something to with
Intellectual or aesthetic maturity
One grows into jazz
Not sure where that comes from
Jazz brunch:
A 21^st century phenomenon
You eat highly developed
Breakfasts
While people play saxophone
What is jazz today
A friend goes to the jazz bar in Bushwick
It’s packed
Jazz is an expensive habit
Pure jazz
As in the ideal
If visible
Might look something like a fractal
Post Euclidean, a
Nautilus
I don’t know
Maybe