Audible Gallery: A small train going a long way
Featuring a performance by artists Lia Kohl and Nick Meryhew
Friday, April 1, 5-8pm CT

A small train going a long way is a work of abstract sonic interventions in public spaces, documented through videos, sounds, maps, scores, and performance ephemera. It unfolds in collaboration with the unpredictable sounds of its environment, facilitating transient experiences of familiar places. Join us for an opening celebration, during which the artists will present a performance throughout the interior and exterior of the ESS space.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nick Meryhew and Lia Kohl are musicians and performance artists based in Chicago, working with sound as object and collaborative act. Their work together explores intimacy, alienation, time and death. It manifests as performance, sculpture, sound and image.

Nick is an experimental musician, sound collage artist, curator, teacher, and armchair geologist. Their work explores ideas of assemblage, hybridity, and nonhierarchy through a sculptural approach to found sound. They make sound with gameboys, computers, and field recordings. They teach kids in Chicago Public Schools to explore creativity and possibility through experimental music making and performance. 

Lia is an experimental musician, collaborator, and composer. She creates and performs music and multimedia performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, theater, and sculptural objects. She makes sound with the cello, synthesizers, field recordings, and radios. She plays all kinds of music, from rock to free improvisation to accompaniment for shadow puppet theater.