
Impediment is Information by JJJJJerome Ellis.
JJJJJerome Ellis concert with Holland Andrew. Photo: Cameron Kelly McLeod, courtesy of ISSUE Project Room.
Photograph of a 2-page spread from The Clearing by JJJJJerome Ellis. Photo: Justin Lubliner
ANTIPHONARY
JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk animal who stutters. Through music, literature, and performance he researches relationships among blkness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time.
Artist BioANTIPHONARY is an open-ended, ongoing song engaging the forms of book, album, and live performance. The project seeks to transfigure archives of so-called “runaway slave advertisements” and celebrate black and disabled freedom practices.

JJJJJerome Ellis
Virginia Beach, VA
JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk animal who stutters. Through music, literature, and performance he researches relationships among blkness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he grew up and lives near a heron rookery in Virginia Beach, USA.