JOYOUS PIERCE

 


 Portfolio:

  1. SHOUTER! (w.i.p.) - 2026
  2. Uptown  Voices - 2025
  3. Beauty & Splendor - 2025
  4. Undercurrents - 2025
  5. Shifting /\ Gazes - 2025 
  6. adrift: the bayou project - 2024
  7. FBF MA 10YR - 2022
  8. Center Focus - 2021
  9. Imagined Encounters - 2020
  10. Facing Forward - 2019
  11. Black Women: seen it before - 2017







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Created by Zane Rodulfo Shouter!   is a multimedia project exploring Black Spirituality and survival through the lens of Trinidad & Tobago’s Shouter Baptist religion & the Gullah Geechee Ring Shout spiritual tradition.

Comprising performance, composition, and immersive technologies, it explores the socio-political and cultural connections of Trinidad’s Spiritual Shouter Baptists and Ring Shouters from the American South.

Shouter! examines the emigration of Black American Marines, or Merikins, to Trinidad after the War of 1812, who were gifted land as free settlers for military service to Britain. Their presence influenced the creation of the Shouter Baptist religion, which through violent sanction was banned under the 1917 Shouter Prohibition Ordinance until 1951. The Spiritual Shouter Baptist religion remains a vibrant locus for African spiritual practices, with Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day becoming a national holiday in 1996.