What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.

—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965

Jess Saldaña

Niki Kekos
June 4, 2019

Raised in Chicago, Jess Saldaña graduated with a BA in Music Composition and Theatre from Columbia College, continuing their graduate study in the MFA program at Parsons/New School and soon after the Performance Studies department at Tisch/NYU. Currently, they contribute to the archives at NYU’s Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, documenting visiting scholars and artists such as Tom Zé and Marta Minujín, whilst working on creating an online archive with the Bobst Library.

Parsons/New School MFA 2020 & NYU Performance Studies MA 2019