BOUNDARYMIND: Performance

Founded in 1986 by Dawn and Lou Mallozzi, Eric Leonardson, and Perry Venson, Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) has occupied its Edgewater location since 2006. The facility is home to a full-service recording, mixing, and mastering studio for hire;Audible Gallery,a small public space for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists' projects; and theCreative Audio Archive—an invaluable collection of recordings, print, and visual ephemera related to avant-garde and exploratory sound and music of the last five decades. ESS presents eclectic performance and installation programming, workshops, and artist talks year round—both in the various spaces around the studio (including its beautiful garden) and at various partner venues around Chicago.

Experimental Sound Studio

BOUNDARYMIND is an evening-length electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating installation by Linda Jankowska & Katherine Young.

6018 N Kenmore Ave

<p><a href="https://www.boundarymind.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">BOUNDARYMIND</a> is an evening-length electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating installation that explores and transgresses the geographical, cultural, psychological, and musical boundaries that impact how we share our past, present, and future selves with others. </p><p>Developed collaboratively over the course of eight years by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young, the project will also present video art by Kera Mackenzie and a performative sculpture by Molly Roth Scranton. Boundarymind’s production partners are Experimental Sound Studio, 6018 North, RomanSusan and P.O.Box Collective.</p><h3>PUBLIC PERFORMANCES:</h3><p>June 3, 2022, 6;30-9:30pm</p><p>June 5, 2022, 7:30-9:30pm</p><p>Both performances take place at 6018|North, located at 6018 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago</p>

<p>The complete work premieres on June 3rd, 2022 at 6018 North, with a repeat performance on June 5th. Two public performances will include original, collaboratively composed music presented within a multimedia environment. Throughout the performance space we will install objects and materials - ceramic pots, plastic toys, wooden spoons, pine straw, sugar packets, and other things - chosen for their personal significance and power to evoke memories of places from our childhoods. For Linda, the space is a cottage in rural Poland where she spent formative years. For Katie, it is her early childhood home in Mississippi. On a series of visits in 2015, we gathered objects and sound recordings from these places.</p><p>The public is also invited to contribute objects and sounds to this project. We will host community recording events at 6018 North, as well as at RomanSusan and P.O.Box Collective. We will incorporate the recordings we make of the objects people share into a second version of the installation, which we will present at ESS in 2022.</p><h3>Community Recording Sessions: </h3><blockquote>May 21, 2-5pm</blockquote><blockquote><a href="https://poboxcollective.us/about/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">POBox Collective</a>, 6900 N. Glenwood Ave.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>May 28, 2-5pm</blockquote><blockquote>Berger Park with <a href="https://romansusan.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Roman Susan</a>, 6205 North Sheridan Rd.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>June 2, 4-7pm</blockquote><blockquote><a href="http://www.6018north.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">6018|North</a>, 6018 N. Kenmore Ave (stay for bbq after!)</blockquote><p></p><p><em>All Community Recording Events are FREE &amp; open to the public.</em></p>

<h3>Artist Statement</h3><p>Working on this project, we have become acutely aware of how sharing the history and the personal significance of the objects we are performing with deepens our connection, allowing us to build the trust we need to make music together. Our collaborative process and boundarymind’s unique soundworld became charged with emotional significance and shared meaning. Thus, in this project the unexpectedly musical sounds of household objects allow us to investigate the formation of bonds forged by individuals from different backgrounds. Taking our collaborative musical relationship as a starting point, we will invite listeners and other makers to contribute to the work, sharing memories and sounds from their pasts, as well as their aspirations for our collective future.</p><p>*****</p><p>"It is as though we...believe that we should have rather than that we shall lose. We should be able to find our way back again by the objects we dropped, like Hansel and Gretel in the forest, the objects reeling us back in time, undoing each loss, a road back from lost eyeglasses to lost toys and baby teeth. Instead, most of the objects for the secret constellations of our irrecoverable past, returning only in dreams where nothing but the dreamer is lost. They must still exist somewhere: pocket knives and plastic horses don't exactly compost, but who knows where they go in the great drifts of objects sifting through our world….” - Rebecca Solnit</p><p>“Life is created by events, but it is only when we are able to interpret them, try to understand them and lend them meaning that they are transformed into experience. Events are facts, but experience is something inexpressibly different. It is experience, and not any event, that makes up the material of our lives. Experience is a fact that has been interpreted and situated in memory. It also refers to a certain foundation we have in our minds, to a deep structure of significations upon which we can unfurl our own lives and examine them fully and carefully. “ - Olga Tokarczuk</p>

<h3>Boundarymind is supported by</h3>
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs &amp; Special Events
Arts Midwest Touring Fund
CeReNeM University of Huddersfield
We're Here to Help Musicians
<a href="https://ess.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Experimental Sound Studio</a>
<a href="http://www.6018north.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">6018|North</a>
<a href="https://romansusan.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Roman Susan</a>
<a href="https://poboxcollective.us/about/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PO Box Collective</a>
<a href="https://lumpenradio.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lumpen Radio</a>

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