This month’s Elastro welcome back Juliana Castro Duperly aka castroduperly to Chicago for a multimedia performance! We’ll hear a solo set from both Paige Alice Naylor and Judd Morrisey to round out the evening. castroduperly is a video and sound artist interested in language as a performative act. The artist says ‘Video, sound, and words are plastic media capable of constructing and deconstructing meaning.’ This duality has forced her to think of her practice as a flexible and fluid place, where language can be perceived as an experience and not as an operational matter. Taking her work to places of vulnerability forces her to have an openness that tends to search for that moment that exists before articulation.

Paige Alice Naylor uses her voice, electronics, vinyl samples, tape loops, field recordings, and synthesizer to take listeners on a journey through a transitory space.

Morrissey’s The Zone of Pure Doubt combines elements of poetry, augmented reality, and performance to explore themes of memory, obsolescence, gender, and time-travel through forms inspired by equatorial line-crossing ceremonies and the age-old human art of navigation by the stars.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

Artist Bios

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist who creates poetic systems across a range of platforms incorporating electronic writing, internet art, live performance, and augmented reality. He is a recipient of awards including an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a Fulbright Scholar’s Award in Digital Culture, and a Mellon Foundation Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship. Judd is Associate Professor & Chair in the Art and Technology / Sound Practices (AT/SP) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the co-founder of the performance and technology collective Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r) .

Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based multimedia artist, experimental vocalist, performer and Deep Listener currently interested in life cycles of the more than human (trees, fungi, cosmic forces), field recordings of trees native to the prairie and Midwest, and ways in which the voice, body, and poetry can express the intangible.