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3—5 PM, Friday, December 5 with Jérôme Joy on Free Radio SAIC

7:30 PM, Monday, December 8 with Will Soderberg at Myopic Books

Friday, December 5, 03:00 PM US Central Time- Jérôme Joy from the Locus Sonus project in France joins me in Chicago for some live improvisation and discussion on Free Radio SAIC http://freeradiosaic.org

Here’s the program, running from 3 pm to 5 pm:

Monday, December 8 7:30 PM - Myopic Books with Will Soderberg (MIDI guitar, micromoog)

My photos of last Sunday’s Chicago Phonography performance in Exquisite City are now on my Flickr photostream. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an update, including three new performances added to my November schedule…

1. 8 PM Friday, November 14 @ Elastic with Auris, plus Max Alexander, Julian Berke, and Andy Armstrong
2. 2 - 5 PM Sunday, November 16 @ Green Mill performing solo Anaphora’s “Experimental (i)MPROVISATION” concert
3. 8 - 10 PM, Sunday, November 16 @ Via Theatre with Chicago Phonography in “Exquisite City” exhibit
4. 9 PM Friday, November 21 @ Enemy with Linda O’Keefe and Guillermo Gregorio

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The Free Radio SAIC Archives are up now at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/

Listen to the November 6th performance by my Intro To Sound students via the above link or direct link to Ear Beer at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/76/

poster design by Hae-Sung Chung

Tune in to Ear Beer, a live experiment in radio and sound webcast on Free Radio SAIC, produced and performed by my Introduction To Sound students.

When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm [US CST (GMT -6)] Thursday, November 6, 2008

Where: http://freeradiosaic.org

We will enjoy hearing your feedback during the show. Please call
312.345.3805 or log-in and use the real-time messaging.

download earbeer flyer (full size 3 MB) designed by Hae-Sung Chung

I like to show Brian Springer’s 1995 video, Spin to my students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, especially when Presidential election time rolls around. This video is housed in the collection of the Video Data Bank at SAIC, one of the foremost collections of video by artists in the United States. Last month I surprised to discover that Spin can now be seen online on Google Video.

The Chicago Phonography broadcast on Philip von Zweck’s Something Else radio program, performed live on August 3rd, 2008, has just been posted in it’s entirety on archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/ChicagoPhonography-liveOnWluw

Here’s the Flash player:

I have six performances scheduled for October and November, with more being planned. Three happen in the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3), presented in various locations from October 1—12. Look further down for my other three post-CCAF shows held at Enemy, Myopic, and Elastic. Please check the CCAF3 Schedule page and this web page in case of last-minute schedule changes. Read the rest of this entry »

At 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, September 28, I will give a short performance on Monica Herrera’s Strings, her sculptural sound installation at the Hyde Park Arts Center (HPAC):
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/07/strings_by_monica_hererra.php

2:00-5:00 p.m., admission FREE, Asian food provided.

Monica Herrera is a recent graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2008). My performance is one of many in the Chicago Artists Month Opening Celebration at HPAC.

Over the weekend there will be a mix of exhibitions and free performances to kick off Chicago Artists Month, including a concert by the Black Monks of Mississippi, portrait drawings by Dale Washington, Butoh dance by Nicole LeGette, and free outdoor concerts by Fred Anderson, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar as part of the 2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Professor Emeritus, Tom Jaremba died on August 31, 2008. He was my friend and my graduate adviser at SAIC (when I was a student there from 1981-83). Tom was a teacher to nearly all of us who were active in Chicago’s small but thriving performance art community in the 1980s. In 1986 I worked with Tom on his adaptation of Orphee, by Jean Cocteau, performed at Lodge Hall in Wicker Park and the State of Illinois Center [now the James R. Thompson Center]. My friend, fellow student, and performance artist, Brendan de Vallance has attempted to archive this period and the participants in the community.

Lisa Wainwright, Acting Dean of Faculty at SAIC, wrote:

“Those of you who knew Tom remember a tall and ebullient man who was inquisitive and generous with all students and all of us.  He gave much to this institution coming to us from the Goodman Theater and founding the Design and Communications Department with [the late] John Kurtich in the late 60s and then the Performance Department a few years later.  His commitment to the body as an instrument of expression in art impacted generations of artists and still holds a critical place in the aesthetic mandate for performance art at the School.”

The Chicago Tribune obituary about Tom is linked below…

Performance art teacher, devotee

By Trevor Jensen
Chicago Tribune reporter

September 5 2008

“Thomas A. Jaremba helped start a department to teach performance art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and staged his own wildly eclectic shows that mixed dance, dialogue, video and music.”

The complete article can be viewed on the Chicago Tribune website:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-hed-jaremba-05-sep05,0,7132232.story