We’re very excited for the September edition of our Pleiades Series featuring a duo of Annie Grizzle and Johanna Brock along with a solo performance from Lorene Bouboushian. This show will also include a free improvisation jam session: open to all womxn and nonbinary musicians, movers and other artists (e-mail pleiades@elasticarts.org to join the jam.)

Artists

Annie Grizzle is an experimental writer interested in the sonic and visual capabilities of language, and how much of the communication process exists there. Her chapbook ‘I Wake With Eyes the Sound of Nectarines’ is forthcoming via Ursus Americanus Press.

Johanna Brock (née Wiesbrock) is a musician, composer, and teacher based in Chicago. Originally trained as an orchestral musician, Brock takes inspiration from modern and canonical work for violin and viola and creates new compositions for voice, strings, synthesizers, looping pedals, beat machines, and audio samples. They are primarily interested in creating work that gives room for improvisation and that explores the boundary between sound and linguistic meaning. Frequent collaborators include artist Rosé Hernandez (Groundings at MCA Chicago, 2019), poet Marvin Tate (Shades of Marvin Tate at Intuit, 2019), and musician Lykanthea (BAMPFA, 2019).

Lorene Bouboushian (they/them) is a genderqueer artist exploring lament as a form of critique and query into late capitalist woes. They utilize their experience in various somatic modalities to purposefully place their moving body and shapeshifting voice in uncomfortable, difficult situations. This is an attempt to shoot the quotidian psychological terror and apathy (i.e. the synthesized residue of on-demand streaming services, doomscrolling, virtue signaling, cultural amnesia, "supply chain issues," civil forfeiture, etc.) through the body and back out to all of you. Refrigerated ancestral trauma and white guilt also make a consistent appearance.

$15 - Tickets Available at the Door