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SUMMARY:Performance: Refining The Third Ear - Night 3
DESCRIPTION:A series of concerts exploring the third ear and other psychoacoustic phantasmagoria.\n\n\nRefining The Third Ear – Night 3\nOctober 2\, 2025\n7:00-9:00pm\nDoors at 6:30pm \nTickets: \n$10 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$10 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$15 GA Presale \n– \n$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$20 GA at Door \n\n\nOrganized by Itsï Ramirez and Bret Schneider \n \nA series of concerts exploring the third ear and other psychoacoustic phantasmagoria. \n \nOver four concerts artists premier third ear music — music which emphasizes the listening faculty as an active instrument. The late composer Maryanne Amacher appropriated the term third ear to describe a music that expands the latent perceptual capabilities of the ear\, composing music that transforms the ear itself into a sound-producing\, neurophonic instrument. Such music is a projection of new aesthetic forms\, a virtuality that anticipates the augmentation of both the creative and listening process. If Amacher’s ambitious work was to make the third ear\, we ask what it would mean to refine the third ear\, to compose music for and with it. We aim to explore how we apperceive musical material\, and the ways in which new harmonic experiences can cultivate new emotions and stimulate the imagination. \n \nHeard melodies are sweet\, but those unheard \nAre sweeter; therefore\, ye soft pipes\, play on; \nNot to the sensual ear\, but\, more endear’d\, \nPipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: \nFair youth\, beneath the trees\, thou canst not leave \nThy song\, nor ever can those trees be bare \n– Keats \nFurther reading: \nGroundwork for a Study of Maryanne Amacher \nLa Monte Young’s Orphic Revolution \nInterview with Michael Harrison \n \n\n\nOctober 2nd Program: \nBill Dietz — They were astonished at us when we told them that we did not eat our enemies\, but you’re just hot and you’re walking \nItsï Ramirez & Bret Schneider — Square Wave Piece #1 \nMicah Schippa-Wildfong — Music for Assembly \n\n\n\nItsï Ramirez is a Chicago based musician. Stepping out of the naturalized preoccupation with sound as sound\, she takes on the project of recovering a new music that has been forgotten. \n\n\n\nBret Schneider is a composer\, essayist\, and poet. For the first quarter of the 21st century\, Schneider has attempted to synthesize the outer limits of third ear music with modern beauty. Via novel formal experiments\, his music cultivates dreamspace and reverie. Recent works include live-composing to a just-intoned player piano. Schneider is also a co-founder of Caesura Magazine. \n \n@bret_fall \n \n\n\n\nMicah Schippa-Wildfong is an artist\, writer\, and musician based in Chicago\, US. They have recently shown with Triangolo IT\, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Benny’s Video NY\, and Pech AT. \n\n\n\nBill Dietz is a composer and writer\, born in Arizona. His work on genealogies of reception and the “political aesthetics of listening” is often presented in festivals\, museums\, and academic journals\, but also in apartment buildings\, magazines\, and on public streets. Alongside his artistic work\, he has served as artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne (2006-2014) and of Overtoon – Platform for Sound Practitioners (2022-2025). He has published two books of listening scores: one on his Tutorial Diversions series\, for home performance (Eight Tutorial Diversions\, 2009–2014\, 2015); and the other\, made up of “concert pieces\,” based on historical and contemporary audience behavior (L’école de la claque\, 2017). In 2013\, he co-founded Ear│Wave│Event with Woody Sullender. With Amy Cimini\, he co-edited Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews (2020)\, and he is co-author\, with Kerstin Stakemeier\, of Universal Receptivity (2021). He has been co-chair Bard MFA’s Music/Sound discipline since 2012.
URL:https://imss.org/program/performance-refining-the-third-ear-night-3/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Special Guest: Tom Palazzolo and Surrealism in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a mind-bending film screening with Tom Palazzolo exploring the surreal side of Chicago\n\n\nThe International Museum of Surgical Science and Luis Buñuel Film Institute Present “Surrealism in Chicago: The Films of Tom Palazzolo” \nOctober 8th\, 7:00pm-9:00pm \nDoors: 6:00pm \n \nTickets: \n$15 GA Presale \n$10 Student Presale (Use code STUDENT at checkout) \n$10 IMSS Member Presale (Use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout) \n— \n$20 at Door \n$15 Student at Door \n$15 IMSS Member at Door \n\n\nJoin us on October 8\, 2025\, at the International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) for a unique conversation with local artist Andy Somma about the surrealist films of Tom Palazzolo. Discover the creative process behind Palazzolo’s work\, featuring films that showcase his ability to capture the absurdities of Midwestern life. \nThe evening will end with a film tribute to the legacy of Luis Buñuel. \nFormat: Digital \nDirector Tom Palazzolo in attendance. \n \nProgram 1 at 7:00 PM \nBride Stripped Bare (Bride Unveiled)\, Dir. Tom Palazzolo (1967\, color\, sound\, 14 mins) \nPalazzolo’s cameras are there as Mayor Richard Daley reveals the Picasso gifted to the city from the famed artist. Nicknamed “the Bride” and bad mouthed almost universally upon its unveiling\, we get some of that social commentary here\, as well as lots of souvenirs. \nO\, Dir. Tom Palazzolo (1967\, color\, sound\, 12 mins) \nFrom the “Chicago-Scope: The Films of Tom Palazzolo\, 1967–1976” catalogue: “One of Tom Palazzolo’s first films\, this inspired in part by René Clair’s 1924 film starring Francis Picabia\, Entr’acte. O’s use of double exposure\, free association and improvisation\, chiaroscuro\, and a nonsensical “musique concrète” soundtrack pay homage to these masters of Dada and Surrealism.” \nThe Tattooed Lady of Riverview\, Dir. Tom Palazzolo (1967\, color\, sound\, 15 mins) \nTom Palazzolo documents “The Tattooed Lady of Riverview\,” part of the freak show in the waning days of Chicago’s Riverview amusement park. \nTRT = 41 mins \n \nProgram 2 at 8:00 PM \nA Conversation between Director Tom Palazzolo and artist Andy Somma. Questions and commentary welcome from the audience. (30 min) \nLuis Buñuel Film Tribute (15 min) \n\n\n\nThe Luis Buñuel Film Institute aims to be the seminal resource for the film and writing\, research\, knowledge and scholarship on Buñuel’s life and work. \n \nThis program is presented in connection with the retrospective exhibition\, “Buñuel: Master of Dreams\,” on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science through February 22\, 2026. \n \n\n\n\n\nTom Palazzolo (1937- ) was born in St. Louis\, Missouri in 1937 to Helen (née McEneny) and Benjamin “Teenie” Palazzolo. He spent two years at the John and Mable Ringling School of Art in Sarasota\, Florida. His interest in painting led him to move to Chicago in 1960 and begin studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where he also studied photography with Kenneth Josephson. Ken encouraged Tom’s interest in filmmaking\, and Tom was given use of a Bell and Howell 16mm camera that had been donated to the department by a veteran WWII cameraman. Tom’s first films were completed shortly after his graduation with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in photography in 1965. At this time\, he also began teaching art and photography at Richard J. Daley College.In the 1960s\, Tom was associated with a group of “underground” filmmakers and in 1968 had a one-person film show at MoMA. That same year he married fellow artist Marcia Daehn. In 1969\, Jonas Mekas commented in The Village Voice that Palazzolo’s films were close to the work of Bruce Baillie in terms of their sensitivity and human compassion. Tom was hired in 1969 by the US Information Agency (USIA) to show and discuss American independent films in the Middle East.Tom has continued making and showing documentary films right up to the present; most recently\, he produced Kapra Fleming’s film Lee Godie: Chicago French Impressionist (2021). In 2018\, his films were part of the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago\, 1950-80” exhibition. He has also been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Lincoln Center\, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, the New Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago\, Gene Siskel Film Center\, and the Walker Art Museum\, among other venues.Tom has been the recipient of grants and awards from the American Film Institute\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Illinois Arts Council\, Center for New TV\, Illinois Academy of Art\, and the Andy Warhol Foundation\, as well as a National Film Preservation Foundation grant to preserve a selection of films in 2006. His work has been reviewed by Roger Ebert (Sun-Times)\, Gene Siskel (Tribune)\, New York Times\, Variety\, Village Voice\, and London Times\, among others\, and has screened at festivals including the Chicago International\, Ann Arbor\, New York\, Cannes (out of competition)\, Edinburgh\, and more. Tom has had retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1977 and at Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin\, Germany\, in 1989.He has three children (Sarah\, Todd and Amy) and lives in Oak Park with his wife. \n \n“Tom Palazzolo’s Life in Pictures\,” by Jack Helbig\, Chicago Reader\, September 23\, 1999. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndy Somma\, An Italian-born native\, has been involved in the performance art scene in Chicago\, New York\, and San Francisco since the 1980s. He is an art historian\, curator\, producer\, and performance artist\, with a passion for mid-century modern design.
URL:https://imss.org/program/film-screening-and-special-guest-tom-palazzolo-and-surrealism-in-chicago/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Performance: Refining The Third Ear - Night 4
DESCRIPTION:A series of concerts exploring the third ear and other psychoacoustic phantasmagoria.\n\n\nRefining The Third Ear – Night 4\nOctober 16\, 2025\n7:00-9:00pm\nDoors at 6:30pm \nTickets: \n$10 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$10 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$15 GA Presale \n– \n$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$20 GA at Door \n\n\nOrganized by Itsï Ramirez and Bret Schneider \n \nA series of concerts exploring the third ear and other psychoacoustic phantasmagoria. \n \nOver four concerts artists premier third ear music — music which emphasizes the listening faculty as an active instrument. The late composer Maryanne Amacher appropriated the term third ear to describe a music that expands the latent perceptual capabilities of the ear\, composing music that transforms the ear itself into a sound-producing\, neurophonic instrument. Such music is a projection of new aesthetic forms\, a virtuality that anticipates the augmentation of both the creative and listening process. If Amacher’s ambitious work was to make the third ear\, we ask what it would mean to refine the third ear\, to compose music for and with it. We aim to explore how we apperceive musical material\, and the ways in which new harmonic experiences can cultivate new emotions and stimulate the imagination. \n \nHeard melodies are sweet\, but those unheard \nAre sweeter; therefore\, ye soft pipes\, play on; \nNot to the sensual ear\, but\, more endear’d\, \nPipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: \nFair youth\, beneath the trees\, thou canst not leave \nThy song\, nor ever can those trees be bare \n– Keats \nFurther reading: \nGroundwork for a Study of Maryanne Amacher \nLa Monte Young’s Orphic Revolution \nInterview with Michael Harrison \n \n\n\nOctober 2nd Program: \nKevin Harris — Overdetermined #4 \nItsï Ramirez & Bret Schneider — Vocal Piece #1 \nHenryk Golden — Anatomie \n\n\n\nItsï Ramirez is a Chicago based musician. Stepping out of the naturalized preoccupation with sound as sound\, she takes on the project of recovering a new music that has been forgotten. \n\n\n\nBret Schneider is a composer\, essayist\, and poet. For the first quarter of the 21st century\, Schneider has attempted to synthesize the outer limits of third ear music with modern beauty. Via novel formal experiments\, his music cultivates dreamspace and reverie. Recent works include live-composing to a just-intoned player piano. Schneider is also a co-founder of Caesura Magazine. \n \n@bret_fall \n \n\n\n\nHenryk Golden (1999\, Warsaw) is a composer who focuses on the nature of objects in art (i.e. material) and how to expose them in new ways to the audience\, how to humorize and more importantly how to humanize them. He works intensely with classical and jazz musicians\, dancers\, video artists and art scientists. He performs his own pieces through the use of voice and tuba. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Southern California with Ted Hearne. Previously he attended the one-year course at the institute of Sonology in the Hague with Richard Barrett. He completed his master studies in composition with Richard Ayres at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In 2024 his work “Sprechen Sie Musik?” was selected to be performed at MATA in NYC. In the summer of 2021\, he was awarded a bursary to complete the collaborative composition course at the Dartington Summer School with Christopher Fox and Juliet Fraser. His works have had recent performances in Carnegie Hall\, New York by Eliane Menzel; Wigmore Hall\, London\, UK by Naomi Sullivan and Luke Newby; Amare\, Den Haag by the Residentie Orkest and Nicholas Collon; and in the Philharmonie de Paris\, France by Ensemble Multilatérale and Léo Warynski. \n\n\n\nKevin Harris (b. 1975\, Oklahoma City) lives and works in St. Louis as an artist\, curator\, composer\, and electrical engineer. His practice is broadly focused on using media installations to establish methods of communication and communal conditions by which to explore the psychological manifestations of the contemporary life under industry and empire. Harris is known for his large-scale sculptural installations involving sound\, video\, text\, electronics\, motors\, wood\, and metal. He was artist in residence at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis where he curated the sound art series\, Audible Interruptions. Prior to that\, he ran the St. Louis performance space Floating Laboratories. He is currently program director at the non- profit arts organization\, HEARding Cats Collective and serves as artistic director of The \n \nCenter for Aesthetic Research (CAR). Harris holds a BA in music composition and an MFA in electronic media art. His most recent solo exhibition (2023 at The Luminary) constructed a universal graphic symbol language\, utilizing multimedia installation to explore its usage. His art has been shown at many galleries and museums\, and he has performed hundreds of music and sound events over the years.
URL:https://imss.org/program/performance-refining-the-third-ear-night-4/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Performance: TRANSFIGURATION (PAIN)
DESCRIPTION:A meditative performance exploring pain\, faith\, and transformation through ritual movement and Latin hymn in IMSS’ historic spaces.\n\n\nTRANSFIGURATION (PAIN)\nOctober 17\, 2025\n7:00-9:00pm\nDoors at 6:30pm \nTickets: \nFree with RSVP  \n\n\nThe performance PAIN derives from Branko Milisković’s earlier work STABAT MATER\, itself inspired by the 13th-century hymn dedicated to the Virgin Mary\, who stands at the foot of the Cross mourning the death of her son\, Jesus Christ. In this performance\, Milisković recites the first three lines of the hymn in Latin while alternating between standing\, sitting\, and slowly walking through the library of the International Museum of Surgical Science. Through this measured and ritualistic movement\, the artist seeks to construct a deeply affective and meditative environment—one that evokes an operatic intensity while negotiating the intersections between scientific inquiry and religious dogma in the understanding of the human body. The work interrogates notions of suffering and endurance as vehicles for transcendence\, positioning pain as both a physical and spiritual conduit for transformation and passage from one state of being to another. \n\n\n\nBranko Milisković (b. 1982\, Belgrade\, Serbia) studied Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He continued his undergraduate studies as a Dutch Government scholar at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, where he graduated from the Department of 3D Art in 2009. In 2012\, he earned his Master’s degree from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg\, Department of Extended Media. Milisković’s artistic practice encompasses live performance\, mono-opera\, photography\, text\, sound\, and video. His projects have been presented at numerous international and local festivals\, exhibitions\, and residencies\, including Reims Scènes d’Europe (Reims\, France\, 2015); CSW/CoCA (Toruń\, Poland); Kampnagel (Hamburg\, Germany); Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels\, Belgium); Utrecht Film Festival and TENT Rotterdam (The Netherlands); CIRCA – Art Actuel (Montreal\, Canada); Live Art Development Agency (London\, United Kingdom); The Tank (New York City\, USA); the 57th October Salon (Belgrade\, Serbia); and Kunsthaus Graz (Austria)\, among others. His work has also been featured on Croatian Radio 3. Milisković’s practice and contribution to performance art are discussed in Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 by Dr. Amy Bryzgel.
URL:https://imss.org/program/performance-transfiguration-pain/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Morbid Curiosities! Surgical History Tour
DESCRIPTION:From ancient human skulls to bone-saws and bloodletting knives\, get an intimate look at one of the most celebrated collections in medicine.\n\n\nStep into the dark and fascinating world of medicine’s past with Morbid Curiosities\, our most unsettling—and unforgettable—guided tour. Journey through centuries of surgical history\, where myth met science\, and healing often walked hand-in-hand with horror. \nFrom ancient human skulls to bone-saws and bloodletting knives\, the International Museum of Surgical Science has one of the most celebrated collections of its kind in the world. On this special after-hours tour\, Museum staff will shine a light on some of the darkest tools in the history of medicine! This tour is complemented by highlights from the Museum’s chilling surgical art collection. \nA complimentary reception follows the tour and lite fare will be served \nThese are hour-long walking tours and guests will be asked to summit 4 flights of stairs. For accessible tour accomodations\, please see FAQs below.
URL:https://imss.org/program/morbid-curiosities-surgical-history-tour-3/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Night 1 - Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell
DESCRIPTION:A surreal new opera of shifting vignettes\, lush chamber music\, and dreamlike characters\, brought to life by Chicago’s motley orchestra.\n\n\nSilver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell\nOctober 23\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm\nDoors at 7:00pm \nTickets: \nEARLYBIRD \n$25 GA \nPRESALE \n$25 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$25 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$30 GA Presale \nDOOR \n$30 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$35 GA at Door \n\n\n“A Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell” is a new opera by composer Lula Asplund\, co-directed by playwright Allegra Harvard. \nTold through a series of surreal vignettes\, the work takes shape as an exquisite corpse—where each fragment adds to a strange\, dreamlike whole. At its core are two enigmatic figures: Dr. Giunetti (Justin D’Acci) and The Green Lady (Vim Grace Hile)\, joined by a shifting ensemble of characters who emerge and dissolve between them. \nThe libretto was crafted to accompany seven chamber pieces Asplund began at Mills College in 2020. Once composed for string quartet\, this iteration reimagines the music for a motley orchestra of Chicago-based musicians\, blending diverse traditions and instruments. Among them: a hand-built Rebec by Alex Yelamos\, performed by Andrew Seller. \nJoin us for an evening where past and present\, the familiar and the uncanny\, converge in an operatic experiment unlike any other. \n\n\nWriter and Director – Lula Asplund  \nLula Asplund is an experimental composer and Chicago-based sound artist. Her work invokes voice as object and atmosphere—dislocated\, refracted\, tactile. Using spectral play\, vocal manipulation\, and fragmented sound poetry\, she enters the nonlinear logic of dream and memory. Asplund has a BFA from Mills College and has performed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies\, The Lab SF\, CalArts\, Elastic Arts\, Bohemian National Cemetery\, and Experimental Sound Studio.  \n \nCo-director – Allegra Harvard \nAllegra Harvard (b.1999) is a Chicago-based artist\, playwright\, director\, and curator. Her recent curatorial project was Unda.m.93 with collaborator Parker Davis. Her artwork has been shown at EXPO Chicago\, House of Earth\, Printed Matter\, Weatherproof\, and the late SULK CHICAGO. Her recent productions include Credentis\, which premiered in January 2025 at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago—the manuscript published by Grunts Rare Books x Veilance August 2025—and Pani & Anu alongside Fort Knox at Schoolhouse Chicago 2025. Her upcoming co-direction will be in collaboration with Lula Asplund’s new opera\, A Silver Gilded Hand-Mirror or Whispered Shell\, to be premiered on October 23rd\, 2025\, at The International Museum of Surgical Science. \n \n\n\nCostuming – Ben Zumbrun & Caroline Chipala \nProduction Manager – Lizaveta Cecilia Ivanova \nMovement Advisor – Justin D’acci \nChoir \nMorgan Peterson \nRiley McPherson \nHannah Bernhardt \nDora Hewitt \nHavadine Stone \nOrchestra \nAmy Lang \nAndrew Seller \nLee Johnson \nDon Lyons \nGerrit Hatcher \nPeyton Rhodes \nWhitney Johnson \nEsther Espino \nEnsemble \nVim Grace \nJustin D’acci \nDorothy Carlos \nJustin D’acci \nParker Davis \nAndrew or maybe levi \nJocelyn Gray \nMary Amelia \nLevi Dayan \nChrista Baclia-an \nVik Tomic \nSarah Cassidy \nMovement Ensemble \nChrista Baclia-an \nSarah Cassidy \nVik Tomic
URL:https://imss.org/program/night-1-silver-gilded-hand-mirror-or-whispered-shell/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Night 2 - Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell
DESCRIPTION:A surreal new opera of shifting vignettes\, lush chamber music\, and dreamlike characters\, brought to life by Chicago’s motley orchestra.\n\n\nSilver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell\nOctober 24 2025\n7:30-9:00pm\nDoors at 7:00pm \nTickets: \nEARLYBIRD \n$25 GA \nPRESALE \n$25 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$25 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$15 GA Presale \nDOOR \n$30 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$35 GA at Door \n\n\n“A Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell” is a new opera by composer Lula Asplund\, co-directed by playwright Allegra Harvard. \nTold through a series of surreal vignettes\, the work takes shape as an exquisite corpse—where each fragment adds to a strange\, dreamlike whole. At its core are two enigmatic figures: Dr. Giunetti (Justin D’Acci) and The Green Lady (Vim Grace Hile)\, joined by a shifting ensemble of characters who emerge and dissolve between them. \nThe libretto was crafted to accompany seven chamber pieces Asplund began at Mills College in 2020. Once composed for string quartet\, this iteration reimagines the music for a motley orchestra of Chicago-based musicians\, blending diverse traditions and instruments. Among them: a hand-built Rebec by Alex Yelamos\, performed by Andrew Seller. \nJoin us for an evening where past and present\, the familiar and the uncanny\, converge in an operatic experiment unlike any other. \n\n\nWriter and Director – Lula Asplund  \nLula Asplund is an experimental composer and Chicago-based sound artist. Her work invokes voice as object and atmosphere—dislocated\, refracted\, tactile. Using spectral play\, vocal manipulation\, and fragmented sound poetry\, she enters the nonlinear logic of dream and memory. Asplund has a BFA from Mills College and has performed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies\, The Lab SF\, CalArts\, Elastic Arts\, Bohemian National Cemetery\, and Experimental Sound Studio.  \n \nCo-director – Allegra Harvard \nAllegra Harvard (b.1999) is a Chicago-based artist\, playwright\, director\, and curator. Her recent curatorial project was Unda.m.93 with collaborator Parker Davis. Her artwork has been shown at EXPO Chicago\, House of Earth\, Printed Matter\, Weatherproof\, and the late SULK CHICAGO. Her recent productions include Credentis\, which premiered in January 2025 at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago—the manuscript published by Grunts Rare Books x Veilance August 2025—and Pani & Anu alongside Fort Knox at Schoolhouse Chicago 2025. Her upcoming co-direction will be in collaboration with Lula Asplund’s new opera\, A Silver Gilded Hand-Mirror or Whispered Shell\, to be premiered on October 23rd\, 2025\, at The International Museum of Surgical Science. \n \n\n\nCostuming – Ben Zumbrun & Caroline Chipala \nProduction Manager – Lizaveta Cecilia Ivanova \nMovement Advisor – Justin D’acci \nChoir \nMorgan Peterson \nRiley McPherson \nHannah Bernhardt \nDora Hewitt \nHavadine Stone \nOrchestra \nAmy Lang \nAndrew Seller \nLee Johnson \nDon Lyons \nGerrit Hatcher \nPeyton Rhodes \nWhitney Johnson \nEsther Espino \nEnsemble \nVim Grace \nJustin D’acci \nDorothy Carlos \nJustin D’acci \nParker Davis \nAndrew or maybe levi \nJocelyn Gray \nMary Amelia \nLevi Dayan \nChrista Baclia-an \nVik Tomic \nSarah Cassidy \nMovement Ensemble \nChrista Baclia-an \nSarah Cassidy \nVik Tomic
URL:https://imss.org/program/night-2-silver-gilded-hand-mirror-or-whispered-shell/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:From the Battlefield to the Operating Theater
DESCRIPTION:Trace the pioneers\, patients\, and drama behind modern plastic surgery—where war\, courage\, and innovation reshaped medicine and humanity.\n\n\nLecture:\n \nFrom the Battlefield to the Operating Theater: How Plastic Surgery Emerged from the Great Wars\nPravin K. Patel. MD FACS \n \n2:30pm-4:30pm\nFree with RSVP\n \n\n\nBehind every breakthrough in plastic surgery lies a story. This lecture brings to life the extraordinary cast of characters who turned the chaos of war into the dawn of modern reconstructive plastic surgery. Set against the backdrop of the Great Wars\, the “theater” took on many meanings: a battlefield of destruction\, an operating theater of innovation\, and a dramatic stage where courage\, compassion\, and creativity played leading roles. From visionary surgeons to the wounded soldiers who became both patients and pioneers\, we explore how these real-life actors transformed suffering into science\, and laid the foundation for a field that continues to restore form\, function—and humanity. \n\n\n\nPravin K. Patel. MD FACS is the Mimis N. Cohen Professor of Surgery\, Chief of the Division of Plastic\, Reconstructive & Cosmetic Surgery\, and Director of the Craniofacial Center at the University of Illinois\, Chicago. Trained in physics\, engineering\, and medicine\, he brings a unique perspective to the art and science of reconstructive surgery of the face. A lifelong lover of history\, Dr. Patel is especially drawn to the story of how modern plastic surgery was born from the devastation of the Great Wars. His talk\, From the Battlefield to the Operating Theater\, gives voice to the exhibit The Artistry of Plastic Surgery—tracing how courage\, compassion\, and creativity transformed wartime suffering into a legacy of restoring both form and humanity.
URL:https://imss.org/program/from-the-battlefield-to-the-operating-theater-2/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Night 3 - Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell
DESCRIPTION:A surreal new opera of shifting vignettes\, lush chamber music\, and dreamlike characters\, brought to life by Chicago’s motley orchestra.\n\n\nSilver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell\nOctober 26\, 2025\n7:30-9:00pm\nDoors at 7:00pm \nTickets: \nEARLYBIRD \n$25 GA \nPRESALE \n$25 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$25 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$15 GA Presale \nDOOR \n$30 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$35 GA at Door \n\n\n“A Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell” is a new opera by composer Lula Asplund\, co-directed by playwright Allegra Harvard. \nTold through a series of surreal vignettes\, the work takes shape as an exquisite corpse—where each fragment adds to a strange\, dreamlike whole. At its core are two enigmatic figures: Dr. Giunetti (Justin D’Acci) and The Green Lady (Vim Grace Hile)\, joined by a shifting ensemble of characters who emerge and dissolve between them. \nThe libretto was crafted to accompany seven chamber pieces Asplund began at Mills College in 2020. Once composed for string quartet\, this iteration reimagines the music for a motley orchestra of Chicago-based musicians\, blending diverse traditions and instruments. Among them: a hand-built Rebec by Alex Yelamos\, performed by Andrew Seller. \nJoin us for an evening where past and present\, the familiar and the uncanny\, converge in an operatic experiment unlike any other. \n\n\nWriter and Director – Lula Asplund  \nLula Asplund is an experimental composer and Chicago-based sound artist. Her work invokes voice as object and atmosphere—dislocated\, refracted\, tactile. Using spectral play\, vocal manipulation\, and fragmented sound poetry\, she enters the nonlinear logic of dream and memory. Asplund has a BFA from Mills College and has performed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies\, The Lab SF\, CalArts\, Elastic Arts\, Bohemian National Cemetery\, and Experimental Sound Studio.  \n \nCo-director – Allegra Harvard \nAllegra Harvard (b.1999) is a Chicago-based artist\, playwright\, director\, and curator. Her recent curatorial project was Unda.m.93 with collaborator Parker Davis. Her artwork has been shown at EXPO Chicago\, House of Earth\, Printed Matter\, Weatherproof\, and the late SULK CHICAGO. Her recent productions include Credentis\, which premiered in January 2025 at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago—the manuscript published by Grunts Rare Books x Veilance August 2025—and Pani & Anu alongside Fort Knox at Schoolhouse Chicago 2025. Her upcoming co-direction will be in collaboration with Lula Asplund’s new opera\, A Silver Gilded Hand-Mirror or Whispered Shell\, to be premiered on October 23rd\, 2025\, at The International Museum of Surgical Science. \n \n\n\nCostuming – Ben Zumbrun & Caroline Chipala \nProduction Manager – Lizaveta Cecilia Ivanova \nMovement Advisor – Justin D’acci \nChoir \nMorgan Peterson \nRiley McPherson \nHannah Bernhardt \nDora Hewitt \nHavadine Stone \nOrchestra \nAmy Lang \nAndrew Seller \nLee Johnson \nDon Lyons \nGerrit Hatcher \nPeyton Rhodes \nWhitney Johnson \nEsther Espino \nEnsemble \nVim Grace \nJustin D’acci \nDorothy Carlos \nJustin D’acci \nParker Davis \nAndrew or maybe levi \nJocelyn Gray \nMary Amelia \nLevi Dayan \nChrista Baclia-an \nVik Tomic \nSarah Cassidy \nMovement Ensemble \nChrista Baclia-an \nSarah Cassidy \nVik Tomic
URL:https://imss.org/program/night-3-silver-gilded-hand-mirror-or-whispered-shell/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251028T210000
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SUMMARY:Performance: Chicago Bagatelles Project
DESCRIPTION:Experience world premieres and Chicago debuts of daring contemporary works for voice\, flute\, percussion\, and saxophone!\n\n\nChicago Bagatelles Project\nOctober 28\, 2025\n7:00-9:00pm\nDoors at 6:30pm \nTickets: \n$10 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout \n(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door) \n$10 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout \n(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door) \n$15 GA Presale \n– \n$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door \n$20 GA at Door \n\n\nJoin us for an evening of cutting-edge contemporary music at the International Museum of Surgical Science. The program opens with the Chicago premiere of Rädda mig ur dyn (1994) by Karin Rehnqvist\, featuring soprano Kristina Bachrach\, alongside Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIb\, Marcos Balter’s Strohbass with flutist Sasha Ishov\, and Amy Williams’ Child’s Play with percussionist Kyle Flens. \nAfter intermission\, experience the world premiere of the Chicago Bagatelles Project\, twelve inventive short works for solo saxophone performed by Phil Pierick. Commissioned from Chicago-based composers\, these pieces are inspired by art\, science\, nature\, and the city itself\, including contributions from Carlos Bandera\, Baldwin Giang\, Jonathan Hannau\, Molly Jones\, David Clay Mettens\, Osnat Netzer\, Paul Novak\, Shawn Okpebholo\, Phil Pierick\, Sean Shepherd\, Augusta Read Thomas\, and Ania Vu. \nThe program blends virtuosic solo performance\, chamber collaboration\, and interactive audience moments—including a participatory “sing-along” version of Berio’s Sequenza VIIb—filling the Museum’s Hall of Mortals with sound\, creativity\, and energy. \n\n\n\nClassically trained and experimentally minded\, Chicago-based saxophonist\, improviser\, composer\, singer\, and educator Phil Pierick has been called “the Swiss Army knife of saxophonists.” Though equally at home performing music spanning the past five centuries\, he is an emphatic advocate for new music and has commissioned more than 35 new works and presented over 60 premieres. I CARE IF YOU LISTEN describes his duo Ogni Suono’s album SaxoVoce as “a tour de force of new possibilities for saxophone and voice.” BBC Music Magazine calls his recording of Augusta Read Thomas’ Laetitia’s Caprice “exquisitely performed.” He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble\, the Slovenian Armed Forces Band\, and MIT (Taiwan) among others. Phil has taught at the Eastman School of Music\, the University of Illinois\, Butler University\, the College of Wooster\, and as a guest at more than 40 universities and conferences around the world.The only prizewinner at both the Jean-Marie Londeix and ISSAC International Saxophone Competitions\, Phil studied at Eastman School of Music (DMA)\, the University of Illinois (MM\, BM)\, and in Vienna (Fulbright Scholar) and Paris (Beebe Scholar). His primary teachers were Debra Richtmeyer\, Jean-Michel Goury\, Lars Mlekusch\, and Chien-Kwan Lin. Phil is a Vandoren Performing Artist. More info at PhilPierick.com. \n\n\n\nSoprano Kristina Bachrach has distinguished herself as a dynamic artist\, capable of tackling a vast array of repertoire. Recent seasons have seen her debut in Hong Kong performing Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire and her Off-Broadway debut\, co-starring in a 39-show run of Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson. On the operatic stage she has graced the main stage with Opera Philadelphia\, Nashville Opera\, Opera Naples\, and Gotham Chamber Opera among others. She appeared in the New York premiere of To Be Sung by Pascal Dusapin with the Center of Contemporary Opera\, and created the role of Lucinda in the world premiere of Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly. A concert veteran\, Ms. Bachrach has been featured in recitals of art song and chamber music across the country and around the world with such organizations as Musicians from Marlboro\, Brooklyn Art Song Society\, Lyric Fest\, and the Grossman Ensemble. She recently performed with Nexus Chamber Music in the premiere of Upon Wings of Words by Augusta Read Thomas on the Ravinia Festival’s main stage. She is a Grand Prize winner of the Artist Presentation Society of St. Louis Competition\, the Ziering Conlon International Art Song Competition\, and American Prize in Vocal Performance. \n\n\n\nKyle Flens (b.1991\, Baltimore\, MD)\, is a percussionist and drummer. Based in Chicago\, IL\, he is a member of the chamber music collective Ensemble Dal Niente\, one half of the Flannau Duo\, and a collaborator with the interdisciplinary percussion group Beyond This Point. Kyle enjoys performing many different genres of music. His mallet playing in ensemble work has been praised by critics\, sounding “like the right pinch of seasoning on a good meal” (Hyde Park Herald). This variety of playing styles has led to concerts all across the Western Hemisphere. Kyle also enjoys teaching and talking about all sorts of music. He is on faculty at Triton College in River Grove\, Illinois. Kyle received his Master of Music with a Performer’s Certificate from Northern Illinois University and his Bachelor of Music from Towson University as a Presser Scholar. He studied with Gregory Beyer\, Patrick Roulet\, and Michelle Humphreys. Kyle performs on Pearl Drums and Adams Percussion Instruments\, and is honored to be an endorsed artist. \n\n\n\nSasha Ishov is a flutist\, educator\, and researcher dedicated to expanding the flute’s expressive potential and fostering connections across musical communities. Praised for his “well-sounded and lucid” artistry (San Diego Union-Tribune)\, he has performed at the Ojai Music Festival\, BBC Proms\, National Flute Association\, and with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble\, NYO-USA AllStars\, and San Diego Symphony.  \n \nA champion of new music\, Sasha has premiered over 100 works\, collaborating with composers including John Luther Adams\, Augusta Read Thomas\, Matthew Aucoin\, and Anthony Davis. He co-leads Offscreen\, a duo with percussionist Michael Jones\, and has performed with Irvine Arditti\, Miranda Cuckson\, Renée Fleming\, Anthony McGill\, JACK Quartet\, Ensemble Signal\, Wilfrido Terrazas\, and Steven Schick. His research project\, PrismaSonus\, explores technology’s impact on performer-composer communication and has been presented at Harvard and the Qualcomm Institute.  \n \nSasha holds a DMA from UC San Diego\, a BM from Eastman\, and is a Miyazawa Artist.
URL:https://imss.org/program/performance-chicago-bagatelles-project/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251030T230000
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SUMMARY:MEMENTO MORI Halloween Gala
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a spooky night of fun and frights at our MEMENTO MORI Halloween Gala on October 30th!\n\n\n🎃 MEMENTO MORI: Annual Halloween Gala at the International Museum of Surgical Science\nThursday\, October 30\, 2025 | 7:00 – 11:00 PM📍 The International Museum of Surgical Science – 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL \nChicago’s most unforgettable Halloween party returns.Join us for the 4th Annual MEMENTO MORI Gala\, a hauntingly elegant fundraiser hosted by the International Museum of Surgical Science. Step inside our historic lakeside mansion for a night of eerie enchantment and surgical spectacle unlike anything else in the city. \n\n🕯️ What Is “Memento Mori”? \nmemento mori : “remember that you must die.” Once used to reflect on mortality\, today it inspires our most spirited celebration of life\, art\, and history. \n\n💀 Your Ticket Includes: \n\n🎟️ Admission to Chicago’s most unique Halloween gala\n🍸 4 free drink tickets for use at our bars (21+ with ID)\n💃 Dancing in the candlelit Hall of Immortals to the sounds of Heaven Malone\n🧙‍♀️ Spooky stories with Dead Reckoning Theater Company!\n🧁 Ghoulish hors d’oeuvres & desserts by local culinary partners\n🎴 Tarot & Palm Readings from Sideshow Gallery! \n📸 Spooky photo booth moments with Glitter Guts! \n🎁 Silent Auction featuring premium prizes from Chicago businesses\n\n\n🕰️ Event Info: \n\nDoors Open: 7:00 PM\nLast Call: 10:45 PM\nMuseum Closes: 11:00 PM\nAlcohol served to guests 21+ (ID Required)\nCostumes Encouraged – Dress to Distress!\n\n \n🎟️ Early Bird Tickets Available Now – Limited Quantity!Each ticket includes 4 drink tickets. Don’t wait—this event sells out every year. \n\nAbout the Venue: \nThe International Museum of Surgical Science is one of Chicago’s most unique and hauntingly beautiful event spaces. Wander through historic galleries\, antique surgical tools\, rare medical books\, and immersive exhibits while you celebrate. \nFor questions about the gala or sponsorship opportunities\, please contact:📧 Lisa Atkinson at lisa@imss.org 📞 312-642-6502 ext. 3120
URL:https://imss.org/program/memento-mori-halloween-gala/
LOCATION:International Museum of Surgical Science\, 1524 North Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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