by-passing-upon
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
August 9, 2025
Performance Saturday, August 9 at 2 PM
Join Ro(b)//ert Lundberg with Deidre Huckabay, Jeff Kimmel, Lia Kohl, Sam Scranton, and Will Greene for by-passing-upon. This iteration prompts performers and audience with a score both graphic and notated, responsive to the infrastructure of 1224 W Loyola Ave. Performers will navigate clouds, pools, and flows of notation along with curb stops, sidewalks, stairs, doors, sinks, and walls to realize music that moves in the cracks between pre-composed and improvised. Seeking to animate a critical fascination with water infrastructure, the score discusses possibilities in property lines and watery flows amongst the notation. The resultant piece straddles sonorous ambient tones and driving, flowing, bubbling patterns. This performance will also preview an album and artist book releasing this fall.
This performance will be followed by a closing set featuring John Marks and Crystal Myslajek as a part of their concurrent installation Permanent Fixture.
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg makes music, drinks water, plays with images and words. Their solo work focuses on the interaction of human infrastructure and the spaces it inhabits. Through slowly shifting rhythms in sound, language, and video, they attempt to reorient audiences to more-than-human relations hiding in plain si(gh)t[e]. Drawing sonic inspiration equally from the glitch minimalism of Ryoji Ikeda, the tuneful experimentalism of Arthur Russell, and the engrossing trance of Hamid el Kasri, Lundberg constructs performances that unsettle presumed relations to pipes, property, pollution. Now based in Chicago, they have performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe at venues and festivals such as Big Ears, Roulette Intermedium, Norwegian BioArt Arena, and CURRENTS New Media Festival. They perform solo and in outfits ranging from improvising ensembles to art rock band JOBS. They studied music at The New School and law and environmental art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.