Eliza Fernand: Graveyard Meander

As part of Roman Susan’s Navigations series, Chicago-based artist Eliza Fernand invites you to a graveyard meander in Saint Boniface Cemetery. Attendees meet at the cemetery’s Ainslie and Clark streets entrance where they listen independently to a 14-minute long guide via phone. Arrive between 3:00 and 4:30 pm to share conversation with the artist and receive the zine version of this work as well as a small a small ceramic artwork. Feel free to continue meandering until the cemetery closes at 7 pm.

 

This event is part of Fernand’s ongoing Navigations project 1-833-NATR-XXX. The hotline houses a series of narrated audio works: Houseplant Intimacy; Fooling Around with Air; For a Person with Running Water; Rock Walk for a Chicago Storefront; Freshwater Beach Walk; and forthcoming creations. These works are multi-sited and accessible online, as a printed zine, and through the toll-free hotline. The line is live – call right now: 1-833-NATR-XXX

 

Eliza Fernand is an artist and educator who works primarily with video, sound, fabric, and clay. With a BFA in Sculpture from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Sierra Nevada University, they have led a cross-country career, attending over a dozen artist residencies and exhibiting internationally. A new citizen of Chicago, she continues to pursue artmaking and teaching opportunities, with the aim of provoking acceptance of loving practices outside of the norm, and promoting experimentation on all levels.