You Burden Your Mouth

Sound Performance with Mami Takahashi & Adrian McBride

November 8, 2024

7:00pm

Free with RSVP

Registration in advance preferred

About the Performance:

Sound art duo, Mami Takahashi and Adrian McBride formed Spiral Body around 2018. For them, the Spiral Body is a site-specific existence. Their performances consider the space itself to feature as the “main character” while Spiral Body merely gives voice to a personality felt within the space. The sound installation arises from the questions about our presence without physical existence. Around, inside and outside the installation, Takahashi’s spoken word is warped and modified within the space and within McBride’s soundscapes and sound responses.

Mami Takahashi is a multidisciplinary artist from Tokyo who is currently a resident of Chicago. Using poetry, performance, visual art formats, and urban intervention, her practice explores the complexities of being an immigrant woman living in the US. Previous exhibitions and performances have taken place at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; San Francisco Art Institute; The International Museum of Surgical Science; The International Museum of Art; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada; Gwangju Folk Art Museum, Korea; Instituto Municipal del Arte la Cultura, Mexico and Toriizaka Art Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues. She holds an MFA from Portland State University and a BFA from the Joshibi University of Art in Japan. Takahashi is a recipient of the Ford Family Award for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art residency.

Adrian McBride is a musician and sound artist currently based in Portland, Oregon USA. McBride received BFA in Integrated Arts and Creative Writing from Bard College, and has been performed in the U.S and internationally, including at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland Oregon, U.S.A.; Monkey Town, Brooklyn NY, U.S.A; Flux Factory: Queens NY, U.S.A; Gallery gelegenheiten and Zvi HECKER, Berlin, Germany; Jardins Synthétiques Festival, Toulouse, France.

This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

This project is supported, in whole or in part, by federal assistance listing number, 21.027 awarded to the International Museum of Surgical Science by the US Treasury through the American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in the amount of $125,000.00, representing 83% of total project funding.

This project is partially supported by a Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

The International Museum of SurgicalScience acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.