Water Wise Bamboo Free
A performance featuring Douglas R. Ewart, Renèe Baker, & Lou Mallozzi
In conjunction with the exhibition Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective
Saturday, October 16, 7pm CT
In person at High Concept Labs, 2233 S. Throop, 4th Fl
FREE
For the safety and security of all guests and the artists, this venue does require proof of Covid-19 vaccination or negative test dated within 72 hours for entry. Entry not guaranteed without reservation.
Douglas R. Ewart comes together with Renèe Baker (Violin, Viola and Voice) and Lou Mallozzi (electronics) in a trio called Sonic Bamboo Rhizomes for a special performance entitled Water Wise Bamboo Free dedicated to Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Elders Lester Helmar Lashley, LaRoy Wallace McMillan, and Reginald "Reggie" Willis. This is the first in a series of performances presented as part of his current exhibition Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective at ESS’s Audible Gallery.
Artist Bios
Douglas R. Ewart, Professor Emeritus at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946. His life and his wide-ranging work have always been inextricably associated with Jamaican culture, history, politics, and the land itself. Professor Ewart’s extremely varied and highly interdisciplinary work encompasses music composition (including graphic and conceptual scores as well as conventionally notated works), painting and kinetic sound sculpture, and multi-instrumental performance on virtually the full range of saxophones, flutes, and woodwinds, including the flutes, pan-pipes, rainsticks and percussion instruments of his own design and construction for which he is known worldwide.
Lou Mallozzi is an artist working with a variety of strategies including sound, installation, performance, public intervention, drawing, and improvised music. He explores the unstable relationships among perception, mediation, ideology, and power by intertwining materials, human relationships, research, and sites. What are often described as “disciplines” or “media” – performance, drawing, sound, etc. – he considers to be strategies deployed in a particular context, be it gallery, museum, theater, or public space. He has performed and exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. He is on the faculty of the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is co-founder and director emeritus of Experimental Sound Studio.
Renée Baker, founding music director and conductor of the internationally acclaimed Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, has composed more than 2,000 works for ensembles, including numerous commissioned pieces/film scores for the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Chicago Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble, Berlin international Brass, CASTLE OF OUR SKINS, PEK' Contemporary Project Berlin, Joffrey Ballet Chamber Series, UC IRVINE Clair Trevor Center, Galerie B1 Berlin, Chicago Symphony AAN, IU CINEMA, Krannert Art Center, Symphony Center Chicago, Black Film Center Archives, South Shore Cultural Center, Fulton Street Artspace, Ebertfest International Film Festival, Northwest film forum/Portland Art Museum, Stockwerk/Graz, Studio Movie Grill Chicago, DuSable Museum, Gray Center UC, Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle, Experimental Sound Studio, DANKHAUS, Blank Slate Theory Chicago, Resistor Chicago, Dominican University, Japanese Culture Center Chicago, Kuhlspot Social Club Berlin, Museum of Fine Art-St Petersburg Fl, BABILO Jazz Club,Black Cinema House, MCA CHICAGO, UC Logan Arts Center, Dance Wright Project SF, Foellinger Auditorium, Krannert PAC, IU CINEMA, Berkeley Books of Paris and many other venues She is an honored member of Chicago's AACM community.
About High Concept Labs
High Concept Labs (HCL) strengthens the creative sector by providing accessible residency programs for artists across disciplines interested in experimentation, discovery, exchange, and risk. Through these residencies, HCL meets artists where they are while promoting visibility for the creative process and advocating for critical investment across every stage in the development of new work.
Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective is supported by New Music USA, with special performance support from Arts Midwest.
