The Richard and Mary L Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is a forum at the University of Chicago for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars.

Our Fellows

Claudia Lavista
Steven Rings
Alison Bechdel
George Lewis
Glenn Kotche
Kristen Schilt
Anne Wagner
Pope.L
James Carpenter
Caroline Bergvall
Jessica Stockholder
Na’ama Rokem
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Events

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Oct

Afrofuturism at University of Chicago - Oriental Institute

 Oct 07, 2018, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
 Oriental Institute

1155 E 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

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Oct

Afrofuturism at University of Chicago - Gray Center

 Oct 10, 2018, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
 Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

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Oct

Disciplines of Experiment

 Oct 18, 2018, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
 Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

18

Oct

Cinema 53: Congo Oye and Finally Got the News with Cauleen Smith, Robert Bird, Jonathan Flatley and Matt Peterson

 Oct 18, 2018, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
 Harper Theater

5238 S Harper Ave

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Nov

Cinema 53: Born in Flames with Kara Keeling, Cauleen Smith and Robert Bird

 Nov 29, 2018, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
 Harper Theater

5238 S Harper Ave

Programs

Cinema 53

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Sankofa City Summer School

Fellowships

Mellon Fellowships for Arts Practice & Scholarship

VoiceGrooveSong

Steven Rings (Department of Music) and composer / percussionist Glenn Kotche aim to rethink the three musical categories of voice, groove, and song, considering them at once as a fused, holistic group, and as parameters amenable to strategic separation and recombination.

Fellows

Glenn Kotche
Steven Rings

Imagining Futures

This interdisciplinary project brings together New York-based Transmedia artist and theorist, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and two faculty from Ci3’s Transmedia Story Lab, adolescent health researcher and physician, Melissa Gilliam (University of Chicago, Biological Science Division-founder of Ci3), and game designer and scholar, Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago, English & New Media Studies) as they explore significant social, cultural, and political issues that will impact possible human futures through a series of experimental and interactive digital narratives. 

Fellows

Melissa Gilliam
Patrick Jagoda
Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Ghost Village

Historian Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations), and Beijing-based composer Yao Chen collaboratively undertake the creation of an opera, with Yao composing the music, and Zeitlin writing the libretto. Entitled Ghost Village, the opera will be based on a ghost story that features in Pu Songling’s (1640-1715) masterpiece, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.

Fellows

Yao Chen
Judith Zeitlin

Give It or Leave It

Artist Cauleen Smith and film scholar Robert Bird (University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Cinema Media Studies) endeavor to unpack the revolutionary potential of filmic images. This project began with their work together on the Smart Museum's exhibition Revolution Every Day (September 17, 2017 - January 28, 2018), and will continue to develop through various forms, including their co-taught fall 2018 course.

Fellows

Robert Bird
Cauleen Smith

The Whispering Campaign

Curator Dieter Roelstraete and artist Pope.L (University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts) expand upon their collaboration at documenta 14 where Pope.L first presented his Whispering Campaign project. 

Fellows

Pope.L
Dieter Roelstraete

Projects

Brown People Are the Wrens in the Parking Lot

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Poetry and Classics Workshop

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Chicago Studies: The Workshop

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The Imaginary Funeral: Image, Artifact, and the Work of Mourning

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