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Open Studio: Torkwase Dyson at Dorchester Projects
Published Thursday 13 of October, 2011
Open Studio: Torkwase Dyson at Dorchester Projects
Sunday, October 30, 2011, 3:00pm-7:00pm
6918 South Dorchester Ave.
Chicago Il 60637
In her temporary solar powered studio at Dorchester Project, Artist In Residence Torkwase Dyson will share her sound installation, animation and drawing. Dyson has produced works where ideas of identity, ecology, class and aesthetic intersect through paradox and play.
Residency Projects
During her residency at The Dorchester Projects, Dyson has developed two projects. For the first, the artist pulled albums from the Dr. Wax archive to produce sound installations that mine the politics of black comedic storytelling. Through artists such as Red Fox, Richard Pryor and Mom’s Mabley, she explores the paradox between love, politics, vulgarity, humor and direct resistance to classism. By framing each historic work with the music of Mozart and Billy Holiday, the artist offers a thoughtful look at black comedy as a conduit for truth, contradiction and resistance in black popular culture.
Dyson’s second project drew from the University of Chicago Department of Art History glass archives and the Dr. Wax archive to select landscape and fauna images by artists such as Winslow Homer and Pablo Picasso and album covers for Pince and Biz Markie. Combining these images with her own landscape drawings, the artist produced a series of drawings and animations with an ecological rubric that connects, genre, class and fields of visual culture.
Continuing her Studio South Project, Torkwase will share this work in an off grid solar studio and installation space on the grounds of the Dorchester Project.
For more information on this project, please visit the Studio_South:Zero website.
