Lampo performance with Bonnie Jones
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 10th, at 8PM
Solo concert by Bonnie Jones, a Korean-American improvising musician and poet, working primarily with electronic sound and text.
Jones premieres samessame (2022), a multichannel electronic music, sonic counter-narrative. Using field recordings, circuit bent electronics, samples, and historical recordings, samesame considers how the specificities of our individual experience and perception of the world are reflected and refracted within geopolitical and historical conditions.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Presented by the Smart Museum and Lampo.
About the Artist
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narrangansett.
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