Guided Listening Session with James Allister Sprang

Join us on the Plaza at 300 Ashland Place for a guided listening session of Rest Within the Wake by multidisciplinary artist James Allister Sprang, presented as part of Stephanie Dinkins' If We Don't, Who Will: The Stories We Tell Our Machines, An Introduction. Sprang invites audiences to turn inwards while welcoming our bodies, our ancestors, our traumas, our pain, our longings, visions, and dreams.

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The son of Caribbean immigrants, James Allister Sprang is an artist, technologist and researcher who considers his relationship to Diasporic timelines while weaving together his multimedia work. This work is informed by the Black interior as well as radical and experimental traditions. Sprang’s work lives in gallery spaces, theater spaces and the space between the ears. He has taught at the Cooper Union, The University of Pennsylvania and Maine College of Art & Design.

In 2022, Sprang was awarded both the Pew Fellowship and the Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship for his work with one of two 4DSOUND systems in America. This system has been called, "the world's most advanced sound system" as it allows for sonic holograms to be choreographed through space. James has exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Storm King Art Center, The Kitchen, Baryshnikov Arts, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, The Public Theater, TATE Modern (UK), and MONOM (Germany), among many others. His work has been reviewed in publications such as ArtForum, Art in America and Art Papers. He is based in Philadelphia.