Yaw Agyeman: Dear Old Thing
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, June 18th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Join us as Mellon Fellow, vocalist and performer Yaw Agyeman presents his research from the archives and collections as a public event.
Join us for our final Mellon Archives Innovation Program of the season with a special performance by artist Yaw Agyeman. During the program titled ‘Dear Old Thing,’ Agyeman will present his research inspired by postcards from the collections and archives at the Stony Island Arts Bank.
“who could know
the lines and marks
the width and breadth
were all beauty marks
and the world
was all
wrong and i am not what they say”
In these moving lines, Mellon Fellow Yaw Agyeman offers poetic reflection to the written and unwritten messages on postcards in the Ed J. Williams collection. Agyeman offers us a sonic response that mines the complex, competing, and all together vexing ways these postcards communicate hierarchies of personhood. Join us for this special presentation of sound and song.
Seating is first-come, first-serve.
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