Carrie Olivia Adams
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, August 1st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 3rd
Please join us Tuesday August 1, 2017 for the opening of Carrie Olivia Adams’ Residency Capstone Exhibition – a culmination of Adams’ work over the last six months as IMSS Spring 2017 Artist in Residence. The event will be multi-disciplinary, drawing on Adams’s poetry and her collaborations with musicians and dancers. Adams will read poetic text from artist books that will be on display at the Museum. The text draws from her research into early women in medicine in Chicago and the relationship between the female body and pain. And she will show a video screening of a sound and movement adaptation of her work on surgery and liminality of the body.
Carrie Olivia Adams is the Museum’s Spring 2017 Artist in Residence. She is the author of “Operating Theater” (Noctuary Press 2015), “Forty-One Jane Doe’s” (book and companion DVD, Ahsahta 2013), and “Intervening Absence” (Ahsahta 2009) as well as the chapbooks “Grapple” (forthcoming from above/ground press 2017), “Overture in the Key of F” (above/ground press 2013), and “A Useless Window” (Black Ocean 2006).
The IMSS Artist Residency Program provides artists with extended and in-depth access to artifacts from its collection, working space within the Museum, and support to present exhibitions that introduce additional perspectives to the institutional depiction of medical history. As artistic practice occupies an increasingly pluralistic field, The International Museum of Surgical Science believes that artists are uniquely equipped to extrapolate on Museum collections in innovative ways.
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