Sixty Inches From Center
MCA Screen | Cauleen Smith's A Star is a Seed
"Mining the rich legacy of experimental music in Chicago as part of her ongoing research into radical black creativity in urban centers, filmmaker Cauleen Smith investigates the performance and experience of music and sound. A Star Is a Seed evolved from her explorations of the Afro-futurist identity developed in Chicago in the 1950s by experimental musician Sun Ra—a research opportunity that coincided with her 2010 residency at Chicago’s threewalls. Examining the connections among all forms of matter from seeds to stars—as well as color and reflection as metaphor—Smith created all-new work for this exhibition, which offers an immersive, multisensory experience." - From Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Website: www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/now/2012/300
On view through September 16, 2012.
Cauleen Smith: www.cauleensmith.com/CAULEEN_SMITH/welcome_page_2011.html
Find more Chicago art at The Chicago Arts Archive, a project of Sixty Inches From Center: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/
MCA Screen | Cauleen Smith's A Star is a Seed
"Mining the rich legacy of experimental music in Chicago as part of her ongoing research into radical black creativity in urban centers, filmmaker Cauleen Smith investigates the performance and experience of music and sound. A Star Is a Seed evolved from her explorations of the Afro-futurist identity developed in Chicago in the 1950s by experimental musician Sun Ra—a research opportunity that coincided with her 2010 residency at Chicago’s threewalls. Examining the connections among all forms of matter from seeds to stars—as well as color and reflection as metaphor—Smith created all-new work for this exhibition, which offers an immersive, multisensory experience." - From Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Website: www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/now/2012/300
On view through September 16, 2012.
Cauleen Smith: www.cauleensmith.com/CAULEEN_SMITH/welcome_page_2011.html
Find more Chicago art at The Chicago Arts Archive, a project of Sixty Inches From Center: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/