Join us for a lecture by artist JJJJJerome Ellis followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled Grenadian Jamaican American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, Ellis asks what stuttering can teach us about listening, generosity, and justice. Concepts that organize the artist’s practice include: unknowing, improvisation, fugitivity, illegibility, inheritance, opacity, prayer, gap, contradiction, aporia, eternity, unpredictability, interruption, silence, and devotion. The artist’s body of work includes contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, flute, dulcimer, electronics, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents.
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Wellness Center
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public.
Learn more at saic.edu/vap
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access
Image Credit: JJJJJerome Ellis, Music for the Garden, 2024. Commissioned and produced by High Line Art, presented by the High Line and NYC Parks. Photo by Liz Ligon
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