The MCA, in collaboration with Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, presents a special performance within Rashid Johnson’s Antoine’s Organ by artist and graduate student Jeremy Lee.

Through an innovative exploration of sound and contemporary artistic practice, Lee’s performance offers audiences a unique opportunity to experience the intersection of music, experimentation, and visual art within the museum’s galleries.

Antoine’s Organ (2016) is a monumental, immersive multimedia installation on view as a part of Johnson’s career-spanning exhibition, A Poem for Deep Thinkers. Serving as a metaphor for the artist’s own brain, the artwork explores complex themes of race, class, yearning, Afrocentric identity, and the subversion of cultural containment. Throughout the exhibition’s run, musicians perform live improvisations from within the structure. Music floats through the foliage, giving life and cohering community through shared narrative.

Due to limited capacity, we encourage guests to cycle through the gallery during the performance.

Program

• Bach, Partita no. 3 in A minor (15 minutes)
• Beethoven, Sonata no. 12 in A major, op. 26 (20 minutes)
• Scriabin, Sonata no. 3, op. 23 (18 minutes)