a•pe•ri•od•ic is thrilled to welcome BONNIE HAN JONES to Chicago for a residency and portrait concert to help celebrate her upcoming move to the midwest. Han Jones has prepared two scores Memory Work and Echoic Memory for a•pe•ri•od•ic that explore themes of sonic memory, archives, improvisation, and collective transformation. Han Jones will open the evening with an electroacoustic improvisation.

Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, https://technesound.org/, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narragansett. https://bonnie-jones.com/

(photo credit: Bradford Bailey)