Multi-disciplinary artist Emily Wells will create an evocative one-night experience merging pop, chamber music, and visual art in a live performance of Regards to the End, her 2022 album. This performance will be the fullest live realization to date of the ambitious set of 10 works presented as expanded cinema with 12-piece orchestration. Regards to the End is informed by the lives and work of American choreographers and visual artists, particularly those with ties to the AIDS crisis working in the 1980s and 1990s (Kiki Smith, Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane, David Wojnarowicz, Alvin Baltrop, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Nayland Blake). Centrally, the work is built from the question, “What can artists working at the beginning of the AIDS crisis teach us about how to be artists, people, living and working during climate catastrophe?” The answers often point to a simple truth: we need each other.

This evening will feature Wells, Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians, and Emily’s video work, which utilizes archival footage of early AIDS activism in America, clips of modern and contemporary dance, and captured moments of extreme climate events. She will also be joined on stage by drummer and composer Ian Chang and multi-instrumentalist and singer David Baldwin. The show will be lit and designed by Tuçe Yasak.

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Boston Symphony Orchestra logo featuring stylized text and a circular graphic resembling a musical instrument, possibly a horn, on the left side.

Sip a drink from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar and relax with live music by some of Boston’s most talented musicians! Get in the festive spirit and shop limited-edition artist-created goods and creative offbeat gifts from the ICA store.

Noah Allen & The Peace 

Noah Allen is a trumpet player, composer, songwriter, and producer from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He first picked up the drums at age four in church and began playing the trumpet at eight after it was given to him for Christmas. Over the past seven years, Allen has been gigging around New England. In 2023, he was featured on Aimee Allen’s album Love and the Catalyst, which was nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album at the 2023 NAACP awards. In the summer of 2023, Allen was a part of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, led by Sean Jones, and toured Europe, playing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2024, Allen brought his group Noah Allen & the Peace to the Newport Jazz Festival. Over the years, he has played with musicians such as Jesus Molina, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Myron Walden, Greg Spero, Warren Wolf, Sasha Berliner, Tia Fuller, Jaques Schwatrz Baird, Sean Jones, and others. In October 2025, Allen released his first project, an EP titled mortal humanity, which gained over 20,000 streams on Spotify in its first month.  

Want more art? Visit the ICA galleries* to explore a century of Indigenous art and creativity in An Indigenous Present, called “unequivocally beautiful” by The Boston Globe and a “must-see museum show” by Boston Art Review.

*Museum admission required for gallery access.

Jazz Urbane Cafe returns to the ICA with a thrilling evening of music featuring some of Boston’s best and most beloved musicians. The enormously gifted pianist Estefanía Núñez Villamandos will open the concert with a solo piano set of music inspired and influenced by her Cuban heritage. Bassist Ron Reid will take center stage with his Liberty Quintet to perform alongside sax legend Stanley Strickland. The Greg Groover Jr. Quartet will close out the evening with music to elevate and nourish the soul.

Celebrate the soon-to-open home of Jazz Urbane Cafe in Nubian Square and hear a preview of what’s to come at the ICA.

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Jazz Urbane Cafe logo

College students are taking over the ICA! Head to the Seaport for a night of creative art-making, unbeatable music, and stunning harbor views. Explore cutting-edge exhibitions—including the brand-new An Indigenous Present and the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, celebrating Boston artists—and make the museum yours for the night.

Music lineup

State Street Corporation Lobby, First Floor

Your Biggest Hater | 6–6:45 PM
An ever-evolving experimental jazz project by trumpeter Lemuel Marc, Your Biggest Hater features Eazy Freeman-Fanfan on percussion, Jillian Upshaw on drum set, and Aidan Devine on bass.

Command+E | 6:45–7:10 PM
Command+E blends improvised sound and visual performance using sculpture, saxophone, broken electronics, sampling, and effects.

Teatea  | 7:10–7:35 PM
Boston area performer and producer Teatea fuses R&B, hip-hop, synthpop, and other eclectic styles into her music.

Pleasure Coffin | 7:35–7:45 PM
Multimedia performance artist/producer Pleasure Coffin’s sculptures of sound accompany her noise-pop music.

Lilith | 7:45–9 PM
Eclectic electronic musician Lilith performs with an array of gadgets ranging from the SP404, Monome, and DJ Decks, to create footwork-R&B melodies.

Event program

Art-making: Land Shapers | 6–8 PM  
Bank of America Art Lab, First Floor

Make art inspired by local artist Robert Peters’ Art Lab installation, Big Baby: A Story of Maushop. Be a land shaper like Maushop, a legendary giant from Wampanoag tradition who shaped and protected the land. Use clay and other sculptural materials to create your own meaningful place or bring something from your imagination to life. Free / Drop-in, first-come-first-served, and space is limited.

An Indigenous Present Gallery Discussions | 7:15 + 8:15 PM  
Bridgitt and Bruce Evans and Karen and Brian Conway Galleries, Fourth Floor

Deepen your understanding of the exhibition themes found in An Indigenous Present through a spotlight discussion of Teresa Baker’s Knife River. Each session is approximately 20 minutes long.

Win an ICA Labubu!
State Street Corporation Lobby, First Floor

Enter to win one of three Labubus complete with custom ICA gear! Sign up for the raffle when you check in. Winners will be notified via email following the event.

Levain Bakery Cookies
State Street Corporation Lobby, First Floor

Sample a fresh, delicious cookie bite from Levain Bakery, handmade with love and the best ingredients for ICA College Night. First-come-first-served while supplies last

University Members: Reserve your free ticket below!

Show valid student ID when checking in!

Berklee College of Music

Brown University 

Boston College: Art Department 

Boston University 

Brandeis: School of Creative Arts 

Bunker Hill Community College 

Emerson College 

Framingham State University: Arts & Ideas 

Harvard University 

Lesley University 

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

Montserrat College of Art  

Northeastern University & NU College of Arts, Media and Design  

Olin College of Engineering  

Roxbury Community College  

School of the Museum of Fine Arts  

Suffolk University Art & Design and First Year Seminar 

UMass Boston: Art Department  

UMass Dartmouth: College of Visual and Performing Arts & Honors College 

UMass Lowell: Art and Design Department  

Urban College of Boston  

[Project Creatine] is a theatrical memoir written for the unique talents of operatic tenor and drag performer Jordan Weatherson Pitts/Creatine Price. Combining opera and drag, this performance goes beyond the limitations of either genre, offering a story of perseverance and radical self-definition in an age when many are legally forbidden to exist as they are. [Project Creatine] (working title) makes profoundly audible one person’s struggle to actualize a reality without fear or doubt that they are worthy of life.

Conceived and performed by Jordan Weatherston Pitts (aka Creatine Price)

Music by Samuel Beebe

Libretto by Lex Brown and Jordan Weatherston Pitts

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Experience Maria Somerville’s singularly lush dream pop in a one-night-only performance. Inspired by the landscape of her youth—the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s rural west coast—Somerville has developed a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes. Luster, her 2025 landmark album for the independent label 4AD, was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and heralded as an “Irish dream pop masterpiece” by Fader Magazine. Somerville is also known for her beloved Early Bird Show on NTS Radio, where her dawn chorus selections range from blissful ambient and shoegaze to traditional Irish folk songs.

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Heralded for their “white-hot intensity” (The New York Times) and “stunning precision of harmony, intonation, and . . . spectacular virtuosity” (Gramophone Magazine), the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble performs LOOK UP, a concert of music inspired by the sea and sky. 

The program features Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales, a new 36-minute oratorio for eight voices and live electronics commissioned by Lorelei Ensemble, that draws inspiration from various iterations of the Beaufort Wind Force Scale created by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1805, along with texts from Melville, Fitzgerald, and Anne Carson. Composer Christopher Cerrone explains, “The piece tries to posit—through both historical sources and technological intervention—what increasingly tempestuous weather is doing to our lives.”

The concert also features Meredith Monk’s “Other Worlds Revealed” and “Earth Seen from Above,” from Atlas, Molly Herron’s “Stellar Atmospheres,” and Elijah Daniel Smith’s “Suspended in Spin” (Lorelei commission). 

“The idea of LOOK UP is about looking up to the sky and seeing we are one entity in this expansive universe, but also looking up and seeing what is happening on the planet right here,” says Artistic Director Beth Willer.

About Lorelei Ensemble

Since its founding in Boston in 2007, Lorelei Ensemble has been recognized across the globe for creating and championing bold new music that elevates and amplifies women’s voices. Led by founder and artistic director Beth Willer, Lorelei delivers culturally relevant and artistically audacious programs that stretch and challenge the expectations of artists and audiences alike. Lorelei Ensemble is creating a living repertoire for a living audience, partnering with today’s leading composers to commission more than seventy new works that transform the sounds, words, and stories that define vocal ensemble music. Lorelei Ensemble maintains a robust national touring schedule, including collaborations with the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati, National, and Nashville symphonies, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, A Far Cry, and Cantus, and performances at celebrated venues across the country, including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tanglewood Music Center, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. Committed to education, Lorelei is empowering young artists to be our next creative leaders through its work with rising performers and composers at children’s choirs, high schools, and colleges and universities across the country.

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener return to the ICA with their newest experiment, Open Machine. Exploring the relationship between human and machine intelligence, Mitchell and Riener enact a constantly shifting, multi-sensory performance that blurs the boundaries between public and private perceptions. Featuring a sweeping sound score by vocal artist Charmaine Lee and electronic musician Mas Ysa, and media design by Jesse Stiles, seven extraordinary dancers erupt in a dynamic choreography for the stage that reimagines live gathering, decision-making, and our influence on a technologically mediated and rapidly changing world. 

About Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener are New York-based dance artists. Their work involves building collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. They met as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance company. Since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works including site-responsive installations in public spaces, dances for film, and performances in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, and MoMA/PS1. Throughout, they have maintained a commitment to queer culture and aesthetics. Their partnership intentionally blurs authorship and maintains a deep commitment to collaboration with a diverse community of dancers, performers, artists, and cultural institutions.

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.


In conjunction with An Indigenous Present, experience a museum-wide takeover of provocative sound-based installations, films, and performances by Diné composer, musician, and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Raven Chacon. Known for his visual score-based practice, Chacon will present more than a dozen works of various scale, performed by area musicians and artists throughout and outside the museum. The pieces integrate found sounds, natural elements, and conceptual experimentation to create a singular experience each time they are executed. Central to Chacon’s practice is a connection of Diné (Navajo) worldviews and relationship models with Western classical, avant-garde, and art-music traditions.

At the ICA, a cellist will perform a solo inspired by a traditional Navajo hunting song. A recording from a found cassette will be sonically reinterpreted by a vocalist. An album composed using audio shards from 140 Beatles songs will score visitors’ ascent and descent in the museum’s glass elevator. A vinyl record will be amplified and manipulated using sharpened wooden kabob skewers. Outside, pairs of brass musicians will enact a vertically oriented piece meant to acknowledge the temporal relationships that align past and future knowledge. Experience these activations, and many more, alongside Chacon’s visual and sound-based work in the galleries as part of An Indigenous Present.

About Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 through 2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, and the two-mile-long land art installation Repellent Fence.

As a recording artist for over 24 years, Chacon has appeared on more than 80 releases on various national and international labels. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera, Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.

Since 2004, Chacon has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in writing new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital Award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition, the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2022), the Pew Fellow-in-Residence (2022), and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.

Timed programming

10:30 AM Invisible Arc, 2016–17 Poss Family Mediatheque (4 FL)

Score for solo cello, written for and performed by Rhonda Rider.

10:30 AM Film screening Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

A Song Often Played on the Radio, 2019. 22 min. In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against another rogue seeking the valuable metals of the New Mexican desert. Spurred by the justification of moralistic dichos, or Spanish-language proverb, the rival explorers come to learn about what truly brought them to this land, understanding their true identities, and finding that they were only stealing from themselves.

Earth Mother / Father Sky, 2021. 30 min. This film captures a collaboration with Rob Thorne, a Ngāti Tumutumu/Tainui composer and anthropologist. Thorne performed on his wind instruments as the sun rose near his home in Oruaiti, Aotearoa (New Zealand), while Chacon did the same as the sun set in New Mexico.

11 AM Vertical Neighbors, 2024 Outside front entrance

Vertical Neighbors is a composition for two pairs of the same brass horn instrument, first presented on the occasion of Chacon’s solo exhibition, A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, at the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York. The score exists as a set of murals, visible to one or more musicians on the ground and their counterparts in an elevated position. A performance of this composition becomes an acknowledgement of vertical orientations as temporal relationships, aligning past and future knowledge.

Performed by members of the Callithumpian Consort, Neil Godwin, Wesley Hopper, Robert Krahn, and Connor Wood, and directed by Stephen Drury.

11:30 AM Music for Voice, 2003 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

Music composition for four performers with each positioned in front of a tam-tam of various size. Each performer rubs on the tam-tam with a superball, while mouthing the heard ‘words’ of the sounds produced by the gestures indicated. The audience or viewer gathers their own version of what is being said.

Performed by members of the Callithumpian Consort, directed by Stephen Drury: John Andress, Lilit Hartunian, Sam Kelder, and Stephen Marotto

11:45 AM Dį́į́’ts’ïadah, 2024 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

Score for double bass, written for and performed by Ross Wightman.

12:30 PM Ella Llora, 2002 Poss Family Mediatheque (4 FL)

The origins of this composition are a found cassette on the streets of Albuquerque of a woman giving recorded court testimony or deposition. A large portion of the audio recording contains the woman in a state of sorrowful crying. The crying was transcribed into standard Western music notation for a singer to perform. The original audio cassette has since been destroyed.

Performed by Aliana de la Guardia.

12:30 PM Film screening Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, (3 FL)

1 PM Round, 2007 State Street Corporation Lobby (1 FL)

Score for several players surrounding a turntable.

Performed by Dani Abugattas, Sam Beebe, Raven Chacon, Jenelle Porter, and Shane Silverstein

1:30 PM Double Weaving, 2014 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

Score for string quartet.

Performed by members of the Callithumpian Consort, directed by Stephen Drury:Lilit Hartunian, Sam Kelder, Stephen Marotto, and Sophia Szokolay

2 PM Vertical Neighbors, 2024 Outside front entrance

2 PM Film screening Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

2:30 PM Invisible Arc, 2016–17 Poss Family Mediatheque (4 FL)

3 PM Dį́į́’ts’ïadah, 2024 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

3:15 PM Music for Voice, 2003 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

3:30 PM Film screening Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater (3 FL)

3:30 PM Compass, 2024 Putnam Investments Plaza, outside

For solo overly-amplified guitar. Performed outdoors, the guitarist takes cues from shadows, wind, insects, clouds, and more to determine the course of musical decisions. Compass encourages the reading of pulses and paces of the world around us. We can align with all entities with whom we share our universe, we can be a part of them and respond when they reveal themselves to us.

Performed by Jeff Platz

4 PM Ella Llora, 2002 Poss Family Mediatheque (4 FL)

4:15 PM Couplet, 2024 Poss Family Mediatheque (4 FL)

Score for two cellos, performed by Rhonda Rider and Adam Broce.

Ongoing programming, 10 AM – 5 PM

Radio Coyote, 2001 State Street Corporation Lobby (1 FL)

A programming takeover of Cambridge-based internet radio station Central on Air. Live video and audio broadcast.

Be’eldiildaahsinil (Abduction Song), 2001 Elevator Lobby (1 FL)

An oral account, relayed by Chacon’s grandfather, Frank Dineyazhe, telling a family story in the Diné language. As a teenaged girl, Chacon’s great-great-grandmother was kidnapped by a Mexican man and taken from her home at Dinetah (Navajo homelands) to what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico (Bee’eldiildaahsinil). While filming in restricted areas of Albuquerque International Airport, the camera moves as though it is surveilling the site, creating a disjuncture in time and relaying a generations-old story of abduction while capturing the transit of people in present-day Albuquerque.

While Contemplating Their Fate In The Stars, The Twins Surround The Enemy, 2003 Common Room (1 FL)

A pair of birds interact with a pitch theremin instrument while situated in a cage. The instrument, being the center of the birds’ home, becomes an encroaching presence that the birds realize can be manipulated over time. Over the course of the piece, the birds change the pitch with the placement of their bodies, while harmonizing with the instrument by matching their chirps with its pitch.

“The title is based on the Navajo creation story of the hero twins, who fought the monsters who were terrorizing the Diné people. In the days after 9/11, I was thinking often of how one (or a group of people) force themselves to harmonize with an encroaching presence while in the position of defense. When backed into a corner, what choreography of response is unconscious reaction, and what is self-determined. What can one do so that their defense is not perceived as aggression, and can the presence of the smaller bodies interrupt the invasive force?” –Raven Chacon

Meet the Beatless, 2003 Glass Elevator

An album of ten new songs composed using audio shards from 140 Beatles songs. Samples of the original records were chosen for their chord progression, tempo/time signature, lyrical content, harmonic (non-)compatibility, and retrograde inversion.

“As a person trying to understand the structures of tonal harmony, I immersed myself in the music of The Beatles. When I had exhausted my ears incessantly listening to their twelve albums and learned what I could from them, I recorded each onto a cassette tape, then proceeded to dismantle the cassette shell until I could remove the tape spool and re-assemble the cassette as a retrograde version of the album. This created 12 ‘new’ albums for me to listen to. Ten years later, I returned to these backward versions of these songs and was inspired to seek other ways to alter the content of the most known of rock bands.” –Raven Chacon

Accessibility

  • Raven Chacon at the ICA will include performance and sound-based art in the State Street Corporation Lobby, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, galleries, glass elevator, and outside on the Putman Investments Plaza.
  • Some performances may be loud. Earplugs will be available from ICA staff upon request.
  • Accessible seating is available in the theater first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be available in the theater.
  • Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

An Indigenous Present is organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, guest curators, with Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, and Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

This exhibition is supported in part by Mathieu O. Gaulin, the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation, Peggy J. Koenig, Kim Sinatra, the Fotene Demoulas Fund for Curatorial Research and Publications, and an anonymous donor.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.

This event is sold out for both members and nonmembers!

Boston-born and internationally recognized, DJ Kon takes over the ICA’s waterfront Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater for a special night of music and dancing. The last of an increasingly rare breed of dedicated record crate diggers, Kon brings his deep knowledge of obscure goodies to clubs and festivals worldwide. Dance the night away and celebrate a Boston artist and innovator who places his love of music above everything else. Plan on arriving with comfortable shoes and open ears!

About the Artist

Boston-born and -raised, DJ Kon, whose name stands for “King of Nothing,” has been digging in crates since 1976, DJing since 1985, and spinning in clubs since 1991. DJ duo Soul Clap describe him as the “best disco DJ in the world,” and tastemakers such as Questlove, Jazzanova, Derrick Carter, Jacques Renault, Danny Krivit, Dimitri From Paris, Dâm-Funk, and Gilles Peterson are major supporters of his work. He has played an integral role in Boston’s hip-hop community for decades and has preserved the development of it as a true culturist. Kon has positioned himself at the forefront of a group of multi-track collectors who possess digital versions of the original recording sessions of some of pop music’s greatest artists such as Stevie Wonder, Barry White, Michael Jackson, George Benson, Mizell Brothers, and many more. This resource, along with Kon’s vast knowledge of music, has resulted in some of the most dance-floor-friendly edits and remixes today.

Presented in partnership with Keep On. Keep On is a party held twice a month at Middlesex in Cambridge whose aim is to build community through dance music.