Chicago Artists Workshop: Molly Joyce
Free (Minimum $1 donation)
Molly Joyce comes to the Chicago Artists Workshop to perform songs that “explore disability as a creative source, including those centered on my direct embodiment of disability as well as from Perspective, an ongoing communally-engaged project featuring disabled interviewees. The songs will be complemented with visual footage including open captions of the lyrics sung, as well as sound descriptions by Chicago-based sound artist Andy Slater, in order to emphasize access as aesthetic.”
Molly Joyce’s music has been described as “serene power” (The New York Times), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and “impassioned” (The Washington Post). Her work is primarily concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident, and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ, an instrument she bought on eBay which suits her body and engages her disability on a compositional and performative level. Her creative projects have been presented at TEDxMidAtlantic, Bang on a Can Marathon, Danspace Project, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, National Gallery of Art, Classical:NEXT, National Sawdust, and featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, Red Bull Radio, and WNYC’s New Sounds. Molly is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Yale School of Music, alumnus of the YoungArts Foundation, and currently serves on the composition faculty at New York University Steinhardt.
The broadcast will take place at 7pm Central / 5pm Pacific.
Tickets are sold on a per-household basis at whatever price you are able to pay. $20 suggested donation; $1 minimum.
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