TOC & PICA present An Evening with JJJJJerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow

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Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

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1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97201 | Portland, OR

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Photography by Robert Franklin, Courtesy of the Artist and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
NOTE ON MY NAME
I have an ongoing practice of spelling my name JJJJJerome Ellis. I do this because the word I stutter on most frequently is my name.
JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. The artist works across music, performance, writing, video, and photography.
Concepts that organize the artist’s practice include: unknowing, improvisation, fugitivity, illegibility, inheritance, opacity, prayer, gap, contradiction, aporia, eternity, unpredictability, interruption, and silence. Ellis researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. The artist’s body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, flute, dulcimer, electronics, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents.
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