Eliza Fernand: Exquisite Beach Corpse

Join interdisciplinary artist Eliza Fernand for a deep listening scavenger hunt in which we will interrogate our individual and collective value sets and question the usefulness of classification. Participants will enact body-based research, listening to the beach environment through a microphone, then capturing a collection of sounds in a relay game based on the surrealist drawing game, Exquisite Corpse. In this game and other versions of it, multiple people contribute portions of a drawing or a text without knowledge of the prior person’s contribution, leading to the revealing of a poetic end-product that relies on collective assembly.

We will meet at the point where Lunt ends at the beach park and practice listening together before forming six groups to explore the sonic landscape of the park blocks of Pratt, Farwell, Morse, Lunt, Greenleaf, and Estes. We will end by listening to the collective soundscapes in the Loyola Beach Field House, everyone will have the option to receive copies of the recordings via email.

RSVP to join, maximum 24 participants.

Eliza Fernand is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculptural disciplines as well as video and sound. They run a toll-free hotline at 1-833-NATR-XXX and occasionally perform noise music under the name Spooky Sounds Band. A professor of first-year courses at SAIC, sculpture at ChiArts, and queer quilting workshops in their Rogers Park studio, Eliza sees teaching and co-learning as a large part of their creative practice. 

Location: Loyola Beach, 1102 W Lunt Ave

(meet at the south end of the parking lot)