In June, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) received a project grant of $295,400 for the production of Endless Shout, a multi-artist performance project exploring the impact of collectivity and improvisation on contemporary performance as introduced by the African-American avant-garde of the 1960s. Endless Shout will be organized by Anthony Elms, associate curator, along with five individual artists and one artist-duo: Raul de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, Fred Moten, the Otolith Group and taisha paggett [sic].

The project will take place in the fall of 2016 alongside ICA’s presentation of The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, this touring exhibition investigates the influences of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), seminal artist-driven movements in music and art that originated in Chicago in 1965 and 1968, respectively.