Offerings

Floor 5 Terrace

August 2, 7:30 pm

As part of the performance program organized by guest curator Taja Cheek for Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Offerings, will respond to selected artworks featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Ellis will base these performances on the musical score they created for the Biennial.

Offerings was commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

ASL interpretation will be available for all shows and printed sound descriptions will be available. Masks are strongly encouraged. Please refrain from wearing scent for this performance.

JJJJJerome Ellis (any/all; born 1989 in Groton, CT; lives and works in Norfolk, VA) is a disabled animal, artist, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, the artist lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with their wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. 

This performance is accessible to all Museum guests and does not require an additional ticket. Museum admission required.

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