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Presencing - Performance w/Vocals by Cher Jey and Video Projection by Jonathan Woods, Experimental Station, Chicago, IL March 2019



LIVE - Experimental Station, Chicago, IL March 8, 2019


Live mix of field recordings from Jackson Park, 63rd St. Beach, Chicago, IL and just outside of Experimental Station, over which musician and performer, Cher Jay, will read excerpts from Ida B. Wells's “The Reason Why The Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exhibition.” Jackson Park was an integral part of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Ida B. Wells published “THE REASON WHY The Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition. The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature”
This pamphlet protests the absence of African-Americans at the fair and also protests the booming prison industrial complex and lynching of black men all across America. She also highlights the progress of African Americans since the emancipation as equally important and intertwined with the progress of America. Recently, there has been an effort to restore the dune ecology at the 63rd Street beach, and the restoration of the Wooded Isle. Jackson Park and the beach is also an active hub for recreation and cultural activity in the community. I have been recording a diverse body of programmatic, architectural and ecological spaces that comprise Jackson Park. The park offers us a re-presencing in the face of an abscencing of the black body due to violence, corrupt criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. Recently there have been plans for the Obama Presidential Center to located in Jackson Park (public land) and many people in the community once again see their their presence contested via erasure of park space and rising rents.

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