About this Event
In this performance, artist JJJJJerome Ellis presents portions of their latest transdisciplinary project, “Aster of Ceremonies.” Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, they’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th- and 19th-century Black runaway slaves who stuttered. This lecture-performance is an ongoing attempt to, in the words of critic Hortense Spillers, “hear [slavery’s] stutter more clearly.”
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. / Lecture and Performance
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. / Audience Q&A
7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. / Light Reception
Please Save a Spot: Seating is Limited
Free & Open to the Public
Complimentary Refreshments
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Image: JJJJJerome Ellis (with m. nourbeSe philip, Roshaya Rodness, and Maria Stuart), Impediment is Information, 2021. Single channel video. 15 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, United States
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