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Artist-in-Residence Capstone Exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science
March 12 – June 13, 2021
Breathe, Fibres of Papers Past is a solo exhibition by Fall 2020 Artist-in-Residence Kioto Aoki constructed in conversation with the collections of the International Museum of Surgical Science. The exhibition intertwines the histories of medical imaging, anatomy, physiology, the Museum’s origin and physical architecture through the technological studies and processes of analogue photography. Adjacent explorations of the physicality of the body and the photographic image proposes Aoki’s work as a sinew that negotiates the poetic ambiguities of embodied time – whilst considering the notion of fibre in biological, material, conceptual and historical contexts.
This IMSS program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
More information at IMSS website.
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思考回路 • Shikoukairo III
April 16 – May 31, 2021
Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago IL / 2nd floor
Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) presents 思考回路 • Shikoukairo III: Patterns of Thought as a continuation of AIRMW’s efforts to reframe the conversation around Asian & Asian-American cultural diegesis in the arts. A third iteration of the 思考回路 • Shikoukairo exhibition, the show features artists who are intuitively influenced by their Asian diasporic background and experiences, yet whose practices diverge from didactic and diegetic inquiries of cultural identity. This year the project has expanded to feature an international roster of Chicago-connected artists, whose work emphasizes process and material-based methodologies and explorations. 思考回路 • Shikoukairo III considers notions of legibility and visibility through the photographic, cinematic, abstracted, textural, refracted, reflective, tactile and sonic image.
featuring:
Zhuoyun (Yun) Chen (Los Angeles)
Hua Xi Zi (Shanghai)
Jennifer Chen-su Huang (Chicago)
Liwei Hu (Shanghai)
Naoki Nakatani (Tokyo)
Shinnosuke Miyake (Tokyo)
Taro Takizawa (Syracuse)
Rebecca Tsai (Taipei)
Yao-Yi Wang (Taipei)
Kiyomi Negi (Chicago)
Kioto Aoki (Chicago)
Head to Shikoukairo.org for artists bios and additional information.
Shikoukairo is an annual exhibition part of AIRMW AA Arts Initiatives:
Event Details
Friday, April 30, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM CT | Streaming on JIC website, Facebook page or Fulton Street Collective’s Youtube channel.
The Jazz Institute of Chicago is happy to partner with Fulton Street Collective to celebrate International Jazz Day, with musical artists who’ve come to enrich Chicago’s mix from afar.
As a culmination of Jazz Appreciation Month, we proudly present the multi-cultural diversity of local jazz expression, as some of our favorite players touch on their ties to their native lands while making music of the here and now. Join us on a 90-minute virtual guided tour in which echoes of Chile, Japan, Italy, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Venezuela are stirred into the sounds of our city -all without leaving the comforts of home!
Chicago’s award-winning artist Tatsu Aoki presents a journey of Asian American cultural diaspora and music legacy with “THE AOKIs.” The duet work embodies the true cultural and familial lineage and represents multi-generational musical tradition of Japanese American creative music.
Tatsu Aoki – bass | Kioto Aoki – taiko drums
For more information and full roster of featured artists, visit JIC website: https://www.jazzinchicago.org/events-1/chicagos-wide-world-of-jazz
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