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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 Bio

ANTIPHONARY 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.

Discipline
Multimedia Performance, Poetry
Award Year
2022
Status

In Progress

Themes
JJJJJerome lies naked and fetally curled in a field of grasses.

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.