Gust Burns & dana jnnfrsn

presents

GUST BURNS

DANA JNNFRSN

Saturday, March 18
7:30 pm
(doors open 7:00)

$10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away

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GUST BURNS

on hearing jimi comprises the presentation of a series of musical excerpts performed on turntable, alongside a series of texts. Through its recursive, multi-modal interweaving of subject and object, active affection and passive affectability, the performance presents a preliminary exploration of hearing and listening that positions practices/conditions of aurality within a larger political-ontological framework.

Gust Burns is a theorist, critic, teacher, musician, and composer. Currently, he is finishing his dissertation, Aesthetic Ontology of Anti-Blackness: Prohibition and Persistence across Black Arts, at the University of Washington’s Department of English. Two new publications are forthcoming, in New Centennial Review (Summer 2023) and Cultural Critique (Fall 2023). Burns received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, directed and organized the Seattle Improvised Music Festival for a decade, and co-founded the collective experimental music space Gallery 1412.

DANA JNNFRSN

a medley of improvicompositional pieces involving timers, tools, scrap metal, bricks, a bucket or two, and any number of keyboards

andy smith and james yeary make music/non-music/noise under the name dana jnnfrsn

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Works on Paper supports activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice across the arts. The spring 2023 series, Experiments in Language and Sound, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more information, please visit the Works on Paper site.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.