Laura Ortman

Kim Nucci

Ruby Que

Kikú Hibino

At April’s Elastro Series we’re pleased to welcome NYC-based artist Laura Ortman, a duo from Chicago residents Kim Nucci and Ruby Que, and solo set from the inimitable Kikú Hibino.

Ortman is in town for a couple site specific performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, so we’re so pleased they’re able to present work with us here at Elastic Arts.

Her practice has a strong connection to visual art. Prior to moving to New York, Ortman states: “I used to try to create painting and installation work about being isolated, of being singular," she says. "Then I started making my own music for the installations, to fill them up. Then, at last, I decided that the sound was what was really moving me." She describes her music as "sculpting sound." Tonight she will perform work utilizing amplified violin, windchimes, bells, whistle, guitar picks, tree branches.

Ruby Que and Kim Nucci will be conjuring portals to another plane, channeled through the lights and sounds of a variety of medias and instruments. Nucci is an Oakland/Chicago-based multimedia artist, composer / improviser, and technologist. They perform on saxophones, electronics, voice, and live projection. Ruby Que is a queer, itinerant, multidisciplinary artist. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete medium, the traumatic memory.

Kikú will present Sky Trajectories (2024, from Superpang), an experimental work that uses Anne Carson's text as its theme, exploring how minimal musical units, characterized by off-grid rhythm patterns and voice (by Whitney Johnson), approach human perception. In this live performance, the artist will showcase tracks from this album along with some new works.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door