BOUNDARYMIND

• Community Recording Sessions

  • Saturday, May 21 from 2-5pm at PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood Ave

  • Saturday, May 28 from 2-5pm at Berger Park, 6205 N Sheridan Rd

  • Thursday, June 2 from 4-7pm at 6018 N Kenmore Ave – stay for a free BBQ!

• 6018North Performances

  • Friday, June 3 from 6:30-9:30pm RSVP for the Premiere

  • Sunday, June 5 from 7:30-9:30pm RSVP for the Second Performance

BOUNDARYMIND is an evening-length electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating installation that explores and transgresses the geographical, cultural, psychological, and musical boundaries that impact how we share our past, present, and future selves with others. Developed collaboratively over the course of eight years by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young, the project will showcase video art by Kera Mackenzie and a performative sculpture by Molly Roth Scranton. Experimental Sound Studio Chicago are production partners for BOUNDARYMIND.

Throughout the performance space the artists will install objects and materials — ceramic pots, plastic toys, wooden spoons, pinestraw, sugar packets, and other things — chosen for their personal significance and power to evoke memories of places from our childhoods. For Katie, it is her early childhood home in Mississippi. For Linda,  the space is a cottage in rural Poland where she spent her formative years. On a series of visits in 2015, the collaborators gathered objects and sound recordings from these places.

The public is invited to contribute objects and sounds to this project through public recording events at 6018North, PO Box Collective, and Berger Park Cultural Center. These recordings of the objects people share into a second version of the installation, which will be presented at Experimental Sound Studio. For additional information, please visit boundarymind.com.

Contributors (2013-20): Ayres Violins Manchester - Aaron Cassidy - Sandra Binion -  Brinley Bruton - Nick Butcher - Carrie Frey - Hanna Hartman - Myra Hynrichs - Andrew Mausert-Mooney - Alex Inglizian - Aleksander Jankowski - Jadwiga Jankowska - Olivia Junell - Mario Kladis - Julian Kladis - Ralph Loza - Kera MacKenzie - Lou Mallozzi - Gabriel Montagné - Nadine Nakanishi - Helen Newby - Ryan Packard - Mauricio Pauly - David Pocknee - Alice Purton - Emma Richards - Molly Scranton - Maciej Strabużyński - Katalin Takacs - Tricia Van Eck - Adam Vida - Olga Wojciechowska - Julia Young

Contributors (Call-for-Sounds): Henna Chou - Colin Frank - Magdalena Jaroszewicz - Kristin Wendland - Hunjoo Jung - Amelia Li Cavoli - Ibukun Sunday

This project is supported in part by: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events - Arts Midwest Touring Fund - CeReNeM University of Huddersfield - Help Musicians - Experimental Sound Studio - 6018|North - Roman Susan - PO Box Collective - Lumpen Radio