Sounding/BODY: Respire

sounding/BODY Presents: Respire

Anabelle Lee Dehm

April 23, 2026

7:00-9:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout

(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door)

$10 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout

(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door)

$15 GA Presale

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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door

$20 GA at Door

RESPIRE aims to create a communal pulse, redefining breath, and aliveness-

utilizing percussive elements, instruments, along with filling the space with inflatables representative of innards, Dehm invites Chicago musicians and her audience to partake in this action, and becoming a sounding/BODY.

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

The International Museum of Surgical Science acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Anabelle Lee Dehm is a multidisciplinary performance artist from Los Angeles, currently based in Chicago. The core of her practice is the body, confronting themes of vulnerability, intimacy, humor, failure,and darkness. She challenges visual norms through figurative abstraction and stamina. Playful and perverse, Dehm strives to redefine the beauty in the grotesque.