DAMON LOCKS presents: LISTS OF DEMANDS Live co-presented by Living Earth

Living Earth, International Anthem, and The Philosophical Research Society proudly co-present an intimate evening with award winning multi-hyphenate artist Damon Locks performing his new, searing, and vital spoken word album List of Demands live in his first ever solo performance in Los Angeles.
”List of Demands is my first foray into creating a whole album from spoken, text-based work. It owes as much to Fred Moten, MF DOOM, and Sun Ra’s oratory excellence as it does to Kwame Ture / Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, and Nikki Giovanni, to Linton Kwesi Johnson, to Ruby Dee’s spoken recordings, and to others too numerous to mention. List of Demands is not just my list. The list is in conveyance, in response, and in honor of all of those great Black speakers that turned a phrase to generate movement and change. Thank you.”

Damon Locks is an inspiration. From the lineages of labor that he cites to his on the ground work with incarcerated artists, his art thrives in the richest of dialogues. The sample-based constructions present throughout List Of Demands are steeped in a lifetime of not only keen cultural observation, but direct communal participation in the culture. Locks’s decades-long resume connects the dots between experimental improvisation, sample based hip hop, punk, and poetry – each done at the highest level and with a list of collaborators that could spin the head of even the most jaded listener. And that seems to be the point. To jump-start the entire personality spectrum into action. Ecstatic positivity examined via his nuanced grasp of reality, all working toward that ever-evasive concept of what could be.

This event will be held in PRS's limited capacity upstairs Lecture Room, so grab your tickets and join us for what promises to be an intimate and incredible evening.

DAMON LOCKS

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist, musician, and deejay. Known for decades of varied projects in Chicago’s underground music & art scenes, Locks’ CV starts in the late 1980s with the band Trenchmouth, and is highlighted by work with The Eternals (co-led by Trenchmouth bandmate Wayne Montana), Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, collaborations with Nicole Mitchell, Ben LaMar Gay, and many others.

In recent years Locks has traversed almost every media discipline… including sound/animation work using unheard Sun Ra recordings from Experimental Sound Studio’s archive (with Terri Kapsalis, Wayne Montana, and Rob Shaw); various collaborations with contemporary dancers & choreographers including Ayesha Jaco and Move Me Soul, and Tara Aisha Willis; teaching work with incarcerated artists for the Pr*son and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project at Stateville maximum security Pr*son; and producing cover art for dozens of albums, including several International Anthem releases by jaimie branch, Makaya McCraven, Angel Bat Dawid, Irreversible Entanglements, and more.

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INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM

International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive media.

Founded in 2014, the IARC label has grown to embody a global community of like-minded artists, musicians, and cultural workers dedicated to craft as a means of discovering truth and celebrating humanity.

The ongoing mission of International Anthem is to make generative and sustainable contributions to culture and industry, and to vitalize demand for boundary-defying music.

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LIVING EARTH

Living Earth is an LA-based all-ages arts series held among a collective of local musicians and organizers. The series explores public art as a creative act of restoration and a means of living in right relation with our immediate communities, histories, ecosystems, and planet.

Between their work together as a team, the organizers behind Living Earth have produced gatherings for Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs, the LA Phil, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, The MAK Center for Art & Architecture, TreePeople, California Botanic Garden, Arlington Garden, Birdsong Project, Reflections, and Floating. As humans, they each strive to tell meaningful stories that amplify a sense of rootedness, interconnectedness, and belonging.

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Please note: This event will be held in PRS's upstairs Lecture Room. Due to the age of our campus, this space is unfortunately not ADA accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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