WE STILL HERE

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Created & Performed by Vision Resident JJJJJEROME ELLIS

Originally Premiered: June 11, 2021 
Run Time: 38 minutes

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Photo by Marc J. Franklin.

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This show includes open captions and is ASL Interpreted

 

 

JJJJJEROME ELLIS is a blk disabled animal, stutterer and artist. Through music, literature, performance and video, he explores intersections between blkness, stuttering and divinity. Prayer, water, collage silence. He researches, rehearses and reimagines the clinical, musical, poetic, political, racial and spiritual dimensions of stuttering. His work proposes that blkness and stuttering are technologies of refusal, possibility and reparation. His diverse body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, flute, dulcimer, electronics and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure historical archives.