A sound and native plant installation that embodies the resilience of the people and ecology of Chicago's South East Side.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my work and reflections on this community through soundscape composition and gardening. I've had so many ideas about sound, landscape and gardens, to have just one idea realized feels great."
- Norman Long
EVENTS
September 21st from 1-4pm for an opening reception
Chicago Public Library Jeffery Manor Branch
2401 E. 100th Street
October 5th | 3pm
Performance: Norman Long/Angel Bat David/Xris Espinoza Trio
Chicago Public Library Jeffery Manor Branch
2401 E. 100th Street
October 19th | 3pm
Soundwalk guided by Norman Long
Meet at Chicago Public Library Jeffery Manor Branch
2401 E. 100th Street
This program is presented in partnership with Chicago Public Library, Jeffrey Manor Branch Library and City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. It is made possible by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Alphawood Foundation, and by Helis Foundation with support from Catherine Edelman.
Artists featured
Norman Long
When & Where
September 21, 2019
October 31, 2019
Jeffery Manor Branch, Chicago Public Library, East 100th Street, Chicago, IL, USA
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"I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my work and reflections on this community through soundscape composition and gardening. I've had so many ideas about sound, landscape and gardens, to have just one idea realized feels great."
Philosophy
My work revolves around the themes of memory, space, silence and the invisible.
BIO
Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago, IL. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. The processes involved in his practice lie within the area of field recording, electro-acoustic composition and dub technique. Norman's art/studio practice involves gardening, collecting, performing and recording to create, objects, environments, situations in which the artist and audience are engaged in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible. It is his desire that his practice offers us a space to consider our relationship to sound via social, ecological structures, our interiority and to affirm our existence.
Norman has exhibited and performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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