Mercury
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
August 26, 2024 - September 2, 2024
Performance Monday, August 26 at 7:30 PM
The Mercury project is an ever-changing sound, movement, and video fit, currently in response to legal backlashes against transgender people, that began in 2020. Using live conversations, blake nemec with Maddie Brucker and Mitch Monroy experiment with transcription, sound, and video. The recordings, alongside past Mercury work, will be exhibited August 27 through September 2.
blake nemec is a transgender writer, teacher, sound recordist, and health care worker, who lives in Chicago. He is the author of Sharing Plastic, and work supporting abolition, decriminalization of unprotected bodies and musicalities of conversation. He is a Lambda and SFAI fellow and is available as a somatic coach or to facilitate somatics-based writing workshops. For more information, please visit blakenemec.net.
Maddie Brucker works in textile, digital, and textual forms. Her work mines historical and contemporary developments in technology and science to design systems of representation which offer new, subversive forms of self-authorship for trans people. For more about the artist, visit brucker.dev.
Mitch Monroy is a trans Guatemalan poet and multimedia fine artist. Their works are featured in Polyglot Magazine, Sundress Transmasc Anthology, Parrish Art Museum, and forthcoming in Foglifter. They are a Tin House Scholar 2023 and an organizer for FRUTAS. They are working on a collection called God’s Gay Mouth. Connect with them on Instagram @mitch_monroy.
The image above is Santa Fe Double 2, photographed by Nat Lachall.