Intermissions: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Nov 16 – 17, 2024

University of Chicago
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
Cobb Hall, 4th fl.
Chicago, IL, 60637

Sat, Nov 16, 6 – 11 PM
Sun, Nov 17, 4 – 6 PM

Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is an artist working with sound, sculpture, and architecture. Recognizing the physical, temporal, and experiential aspects of sound, her work often blurs the line between installation and performance as it offers activations of sonic space for audiences to explore or settle into. At the Renaissance Society, Gork develops a new project for the Intermissions series in collaboration with performer, sound artist, and electronic musician Laetitia Sonami. Directly engaging with this unique setting, Gork introduces new physical elements into the empty gallery space, positions multiple sound sources, and experiments with the room’s unusual acoustics. For two days, Sonami and Gork mobilize and shape the sound within this environment across various listening zones. Visitors are free to come and go during the durational performance.

Special thanks to Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA.    

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Launched in 2017, Intermissions is an ongoing programming series devoted to performance and other inventive time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform features two artists every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.

Image: Installation view of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Poems of Electronic Air at theCarpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2024. Photo: Julia Featheringill.