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Very excited about these programs! This summer I'll be working with Sara Zalek at my new neighborhood park Big Marsh!

Opening next Friday, May 12, at DEMO 🏠 PIEZO: a group exhibition organized by Chicago-based curator Teresa Silva. Featuring work from Holly Cahill (Chicago), Julia Fish (Chicago), Hannah Givler (Chicago|Iowa City), Norman W. Long (Chicago), and Sebastian Aguirre (Chicago) and Tony Koerner (Los Angeles). . . . Work pictured: ​Holly Cahill, Under Constructed, 2013,​ watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, 22.5" x 22.5" A post shared by DEMO Project (@demoprojectspace) on May 3, 2017 at 8:41am PDT

Wild garlic: Contemporary Chicago Darrell Roberts. Stacey Lee Gee. Regin Igloria. Norman Long. Garland Martin Taylor. Yhelena/Michael Hall. Dillon Lemon - opening May 6, 5-7pm Video Van Vlissingen - Flower Norman W. Long At Ignition Project Space A post shared by N.w. Long (@normanwlong) on May 6, 2017 at 6:09pm PDT

In Session Three: Jaclyn Jacunski, Norman Long and Rose Hernandez  Wednesday APR 12 6:30PM Free and open to the public. Join sound artist Norman Long, installation artist Jaclyn Jacunski, and momevent artist Rose Hernandez for the third of of 6 THAWALLS In-Session installments. A remix of the traditional lecture or panel, In–Session is a critical interdisciplinary salon that incorporates reading, conversation, and performance. The salons are focused on a selection from a shared reading list which is compiled based on a theme. Artists, curators and community members curate the In–Session, selecting the reading and the performers. After the conversation on the selection, it is activated by performance—music, song, poetry, dance or movement. Rose Hernandez Rosè is a Chicago-based artist and healer performing through practices of butoh, theater, sound, ritual, and reiki. Using their body Rosè searches for the healing of themselves, their community. Rosè performs ...

FRIDAY MARCH 31 | 9:00 PM Elastro: Radio Trio, Stephan Moore/Ed Osborn, Norman W. Long $10 vanvlissingen (afterburn) - lo res excerpt from normanwlong on Vimeo . The video has imagery directly from the camera as well as spectral analyses (from a simple hand-made device one can attach to a smart phone) of the air quality of the prairie. The video obscures the landscape via the camera focusing on the newly scorched earth and filtered through a spectroscope that analyzes the air quality of the environment. The video features audio recordings mixed with analog synthesizers weaving in and out of the post industrial noise coming from the adjacent rail yard, local residences and the local ecology of birds and singing insects. This project focuses on diversity, restoration, and resilience. The installation challenges notions of landscape by bypassing the pictorial and the beautiful, defining landscape by what it does, how it sounds and exposes how landscape is a complex matr...

http://compoundyellow.com/events/2017/1/28/soundwalk-performancenorman-w-long Soundwalk/Performance Saturday January 28, 2017 12 noon Compound Yellow 244 Lake St., Oak Park, IL, 60302 I'm very happy new announce that I will be working with Compound Yellow (Formerly Southside Hub of Production) on a soundwalk and live electronics performance.   Soundwalk What is a soundwalk? It is a guided exploration of a site using listening focused skills. We will listen to how the site sounds, as we are moving through it. I believe that through listening we have a tool to define communities and ourselves. We also can use those tools to shape who we are and where we live. We will be listening for changes, interactions, conditions, weather, traffic, animals, insects, people, vehicles and other factors in what makes a place what it is. We start by listening in our own silence. Being mindful of our own consciousness. Then we focus on how we sound as we move throughou...