Friday 1/22 – Thursday 1/28
23 SATURDAY M.W. Burns’s audio installations Qualifier and Sinker involved the sound of splashing water coming from above, while an insistent male voice in the midst of a diatribe emanated from two speakers on the floor. The sounds ebbed and flowed, so that incidental noise–like the murmuring of gallery patrons–could also be heard. Tonight Burns’s aural canvas will be installed in the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a ravelike multimedia event called Trans23. Part one of the 21-and-over event will be staged from 7 to 10, with a set by Lilith and videos by David Foss, Ben Stokes, Brien E. Rullman, Jim Fetterly, and Jon Schnepp. Part two, from 10 to 2, includes sets by Casey Rice with Rob Mazurek, the Florida-based Luna Sol, and Detroit’s Carl Craig and the Innerzone Orchestra. The lobby will be the scene of a site-specific installation by Burns; John Herndon and Atmospheric Audiochair will spin records in yet another room. The shindig is at the MCA, 220 E. Chicago (312-397-4010). Tickets to each session are $12; $18 gets you the whole shebang. Or you can save your money and check out the simultaneous Web-cast at www.mcachicago.org.
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27 WEDNESDAY “I did not wait for desegregation, for college, for creative-writing classes, for grownups to show me the way. I found my vocation. It called to me and I was determined to answer the call,” writes Bell Hooks in the preface to her new book, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work. The collection of memoir-based essays includes ruminations about her childhood and how race, class, and gender affect the writer. Hooks will present a free reading tonight at 6 in the lower-level auditorium of the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State (312-747-4050).
