OPTION: POTLIQUOR
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Experimental Sound Studio
https://maps.app.goo.gl/qe8T5bpcRj1pG6KT8 - 06.15.25 03:00 PM 05:00 PM
Artists
Description
The 2025 OPTION season kicks off with Potliquor, a new experimental duo with pianist Sharon Udoh and turnablist Allen Moore. They hearken back to Black ancestry and call towards Black futures through sampling, remixing, and improvisation.
This performance and interview are presented in the ESS garden, and premieres online on ESS’s YouTube.
The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.
About Sharon Udoh
Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Their performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeƱo pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, and magnetic. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Jamila Woods, Ben Lamar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, and on this particular day, Allen Moore.
About Allen Moore
Allen Moore is a Black Interdisciplinary Visual Artist, Experimental Turntablist, Sound Artist, Educator and Youth Mentor born and raised in the Historic Village of Robbins, IL. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including Tritriangle, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lula Cafe.