Dance Data Underground Fanzine (2024)

Dance Data Underground Fanzine is an archive of the present day in underground dance music. This 100-page, inaugural issue focuses on the resurgent free party movement across the United States. Features: interviews with crews and artists who are working to subvert capitalist politics in music; gritty photos and flyers encapsulating this fleeting moment; design paying homage to 90s music magazines.

First edition of 200 copies published in June 2024. Sold out.
Second edition of 300 copies published in July 2024. Sold out.

Distributed at:
Printed Matter (NY) https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/66369/
Arcana Books (LA)
Rubadub Records (UK)
Vida Subterranea (MX)
Dance Data (NY)
Nothing Usual (CA)

Editors: Cheyce Batchelor, Jesse Pimenta
Writer: Cheyce Batchelor
Design: Jesse Pimenta

CNN (Various roles from 2020 - 2024)

I’ve produced and written hundreds of segments for various CNN domestic and international shows, as both a full-time contractor and a full-time employee.

In 2020, I began as a production intern and, soon after, became a full-time associate producer for the Atlanta office. Then, in 2021, I joined the NYC office as a full-time contractor and worked as both an editorial producer and scriptwriter, depending on shows’ needs.

Editorial Producer:
Exclusive interview with Jeff Bezos:

Secrets of the K-POP industry with the head of HYBE:

A New York summer with Naomi Beckwith, Chief Curator of the Guggenheim:

Wars of the future will be fought in space:

John Kerry on advocating for climate investment:

Deepak Chopra’s New Years’ message of calm:

Maluma releases new cognac (and gets vaccinated):

Scriptwriter & Producer:

The Streets Are Our Playground (2019)

Short documentary
Produced, shot and edited by Cheyce Batchelor
Music by Yung Kartz
Special thanks to KJ McGlon, Taylor Washington and Justin Bright

For The Love of Goats (2020)

Photo story for Florida’s NPR- and PBS-affiliated news station Read here

'I Began To Call And Demand Answers': A Jail Inmate's Mother Searches For Justice In Two Cases (2019)

Investigative report and photos for Florida’s NPR- and PBS-affiliated news station Read here

“I Will Not Go Quietly” (2019)

Photography accompanying story on pioneering transgender candidate for Florida Senate Read here

Photos of Florida protests (2019-2020)

Other selected shots (2018-2020)

The Fruits of Our Love (Phillips, 2023)

Installation shown in Phillips (the auction house’s NYC art gallery) in August 2023, as part of the Textured Memos group show.

Artist’s statement:
A mobile constructed from found metals, alongside collages from 1960s and ‘70s sexual instruction manuals. The photos and poses were all orchestrated by male photographers, so overlaying them with a woman’s prose is an attempt to wrestle back power over the images and sexual discourse. Rusted chains and locks intersect with intimate poses, like shackles over the female subjects’ bodies, symbolizing how antiquated and restrictive these representations of sex were. Centuries of male narratives dominating sexual depictions continues to warp views of the feminine body, as well as femmes’ own understandings of their role in sex acts. How do we reset the dialogue?

Other publications

- “Self Portrait 01” / Analog photo in book Pix 029, sold at Dashwood Books in New York City, 2023
- “Self-Serving Confession” / Poem reading at event I Heart Hu York, June 2023

- “Overflowing” / Editorial photographs for the annual arts magazine Hu, February 2023
- “Ephemeral” / Opening poem written for annual arts magazine Hu, February 2023
- “Anti-Racism Books See Spike In Readership” / News article for WUFT, July 2020

- “When Patriotism Isn’t Patriotic” / Opinion article for Hu Magazine, July 2020
- “Stranded International Students Face Financial Barriers and Uncertainty” / News article for WUFT, June 2020

Cheyce Batchelor

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