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Curator Tour: Groundings –

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  • Kovler Atrium
    Second Floor
    220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
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John Cage, A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, 1978. Felt-tip pen on map; 53 ½ × 41 ½ in. (135.9 × 105.4 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of MCA Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board; and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1982.19
© MCA Chicago, © 1993 John Cage Trust
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Join Assistant Curator Grace Deveney and Associate Curator of Performance Tara Aisha Willis for an in-depth tour of Groundings on the museum’s fourth floor. The exhibition considers the reciprocal influence between bodies in motion and the invisible forces that govern movement, such as gravity, time, and electricity.

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  • Groundings–
    A nude adult with masculine shoulders wears cowboy boots on their hands and feet. They stand on one of their hands with their feet splayed across the corner of a room lit in red.
    1. Long A person poses dramatically balanced on one arm, limbs spread in various directions–each adorned with a cowboy boot. One booted arm points towards us and both legs splay out to touch the walls of the nearby corner. The person faces away from you, back flexing from the contortion of their pose. The lighting of the photograph is dramatic and dream-like, with one light source casting red shadows and an orange glow, while another light casts green shadows. The figure's shadow spreads across the wall revealing the outline of male genitals.