Still from Good Stock on the Dimensional Floor: An Opera

Members of the YAMS Collective (also known as HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?) is a collective of artists, writers, composers, academics, filmmakers and performers from around the world who collaborate across disciplines and cities.

Film Screening
Thursday October 30, 6:00-8:00pm
Logan Center for the Arts - Performance Hall
915 East 60th Street

The YAMS Collective will screen, Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera, a 53-minute digital film in 35 parts, followed by a public discussion. Good Stock reimagines the traditional opera to pose a central question: “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by a ‘blackness’ outside of it?” The spoken, chanted, sung, and screamed libretto explores the consequences of centuries of global racial strife that are thrust upon on those born of African descent.

Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, Arts + Public Life, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Department of Visual Arts, Open Practice Committee, Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago Arts Council, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.