What’s Inside Performance by Sam Anthem

What’s Inside Performance by Sam Anthem

What’s Inside is both the result and expression of their recent experiences being medically imaged and looking at those images. Through encounters between moving body, realtime biosonification, and dynamic projections of medical images of that body counterposed onto it, the piece explores the potentials of medical technology to not only objectify and mechanize but also fabulate and expand bodily imaginaries. In response to the themes and materials of the performance, the event will also feature a generative text reading by Claire Lobenfeld and printed matter by Sarah Lutkenhaus.

About the Artist:

Sam Anthem is an interdisciplinary sound, performance, and media artist who seeks to illuminate, turn upside down, and animate socially-embedded and often invisible material relations. Weaving conceptual threads across archives, bodies, species, and social lives, their work addresses power and knowledge systems through sonic and technological encounters.

General Admission $20

Student Admission $10

Admission at the door $25

Free for IMSS Member

Doors open at 6:30 pm

About the Multidisciplinary Recovery Series: The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical and surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum continuously seeks artist performance and workshop proposals for its contemporary art program. Performing artists can be within the category of visual art, poetry, music, and experimental, among others.

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