Live Performance of “We Lit a Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis)”
February 27 @ 5:00 pm
Activated by Thaddeus Tukes
In conjunction with the museum’s presentation of Maria Gaspar’s 60 hour and 20-minute video, Clamour (2022), please join us for a special performance of We Lit a Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis) by Gaspar and activated by musician Thaddeus Tukes. In the performance, Tukes plays a variety of percussive instruments, including Gaspar’s sonic sculpture made of iron bars salvaged from the demolition of two housing blocks formerly operated by the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. Through the sounding of carceral debris, the artists activate the bars through generative touch and vibration, transforming materials of confinement into resonant sites of collective imagination and liberation.
Free with museum admission; RSVPs are requested as space is limited.
Image: Thaddeus Tukes performs We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis) by Maria Gaspar @ Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2025. Photo courtesy Truth & Documentary.