During the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists are feeling out of their element in their creative practices. Joe’s Pub is supporting joyful, collaborative work by offering micro-commissions to 8 duos of artists/performers who have never worked together before. This piece - by Kameron Neal and Idris Goodwin - is the result of one of these joyful, collaborative pairings. 

Artists were encouraged to tap any side of their creativity that is bringing them joy during this time, whether meant working in their normal medium or experimenting with something outside of their genre.

Breakbeat Prayer #1 by Kameron Neal and Idris Goodwin will premiere on our YouTube channel and IGTV at noon ET on Thursday, August 26.

Kameron Neal is a video artist, performance-maker, and multidisciplinary designer based in NYC. Forbes described Kameron’s solo exhibition at Detroit Art Week 2019 as “an absurd escape that simultaneously provokes and entertains.” Kameron is currently a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts and has been in residence at CultureHub, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, and forthcoming at Bemis Center.

Across two decades Idris Goodwin has forged an impactful career as a multiple award-winning playwright, breakbeat poet, director, educator, and organizer. Passionate about cultivating new audiences in the arts, Idris is The Director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, the first Black man to hold the position in its 100 year history.